Self-defense Quotes

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.

The President has launched a very agressive campaign of self-defense, with the goal of getting Americans to buy into his vision of America on the world stage.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

I only direct in self-defense.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?