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- The proper course of action, when under attack, is usually to counterattack.
- Your mind-set is your primary weapon
- Anyone who is aware of his environment knows that the peril of physical assault does exist, and that it exists everywhere and at all times.
- The one who fights back retains his dignity and his self-respect.
- Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared…
- Know what is behind you, and pay particular attention to anything out of place.
- The one who anticipates the action wins. The one who does not, loses.
- Observe your cat. It is difficult to surprise him. Why? Naturally his superior hearing is part of the answer, but not all of it. He…
- Use your eyes. Do not enter unfamiliar areas that you cannot observe first. Make it a practice to swing wide around corners, use window glass…
- No sensible person ever opens the door of his house without knowing who is knocking.
- The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.
- "What would I do if?.." By thinking tactically, we can more easily arrive at correct tactical solutions, and practice - even theoretical practice - tends…
- When under attack, it is necessary to evaluate the situation and to decide instantly upon a proper course of action, to be carried out immediately…
- The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack.
- Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.
- Never assume that simply having a gun makes you a marksman. You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol than you are…
- If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you a proper course…
- On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.
- The perfect fight is one that is over before the loser really understands what is going on. The perfect defense is a counterattack that succeeds…
- Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation.
- Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours…
- It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep…
- Under any sort of attack, keep cool. And if you must shoot, shoot with precision.
- Anyone who willfully and maliciously attacks another without sufficient cause deserves no consideration.
- We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker…
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- Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to… — Frederic Bastiat
- Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense. — Conrad Black
- As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in… — John O. Brennan
- I only direct in self-defense. — Mel Brooks
- My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense. — Fred Allen
- Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence.… — Frederick William Robertson
- Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense. — Khalil Gibran
- Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited. — Ronald Reagan
- Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't… — Charley Reese
- Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator,… — Elbridge Gerry
- The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals. — James Monroe
- Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime… — James Bovard