Jeff Cooper Quotes

Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.

I realized that anyone who dared to hurt me would suffer his full wrath, and Walt wasn’t going to hold him back.

In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.

I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

No damn man kills me and lives.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

I mean if someone you know pushes a button you're gonna strike back out.

The snake will always bite back.

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

I did not defend myself. I say a life for a life.

One may slay without hesitation an assassin who approaches with murderous intent…. By killing an assassin the slayer incurs no guilt, whether he does it publicly or secretly; in that case fury recoils upon fury

If one comes to kill you, make haste and kill him first.

Those who connived in this crime against us … merits no more consideration than a wild beast, and should be killed without mercy or hesitation as opportunity offers.

Our nation is still somewhat sad, but we’re angry. There’s a certain level of blood lust…. pretty soon we’ll have to start displaying scalps.

People want to kill people because they don't want them out on the street again.

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Whoso sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

Blood can not restore blood and government should not act for revenge.

What is war but your usual custom? Or what is sweeter for a brave man than to seek revenge with his own hand? It is right for nature to glut the soul with vengeance. Let us then attack the foe eagerly, for they are ever the bolder who make the attack.