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For everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of…

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Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice…
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has…
Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter…
There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the…
If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never…
No State shall pass any law impairing the [natural] obligation of contracts.
All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage…
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other…
Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms…
And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder…
The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending…
Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions…

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The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will… — Ronald Reagan
For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength-and strength alone. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can… — Richard M. Nixon
Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even… — Thomas Aquinas
So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence… — Harold Lasswell
Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor. — Saddam Hussein
With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars… — Howard Zinn
I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I… — Dominic Monaghan
History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor. — Mahmoud Darwish
And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in… — Mark Twain
While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals,… — Pope Benedict XVI

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