Defence Spending

Famous quotes containing the words defence and/or spending:

    There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
    —E.V. (Edward Verrall)

    What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.
    Doris Lessing (b. 1919)