Quotes on Self Defense

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression.

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.