Quotes about Self-defense
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
- John Adams
No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Leftists hate the Second Amendment and our freedoms. They don't want us Americans to be able to defend ourselves, families, and children or our country and rights.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
Doesn't take much sense to know you shouldn't live in a place if you have to carry a gun.
- Frank Herbert
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
- Malcolm X
I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his...
- Malcolm X
If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.
- Sonia Sotomayor
The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.
- Charles Spurgeon
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
- GK Chesterton
The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.
- Malcolm X
When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously.
- Mike Huckabee