Right to Defend Quotes

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

When it comes to those who are accused and their right to defend themselves, it is perfectly reasonable to expect relevant evidence to be made public, and I am in favour of open justice.

This isn't about deer hunting. The Second Amendment is about our right to keep and bear arms to defend ourselves.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here!

According to the State of Florida, the person with the gun has the right to defend him or herself.

Whoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.

If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.

I think it suffices to say that Israel has the right to defend itself.

If you've written something that you believe is true, and if you can afford to defend it, then you've got to defend it.

Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.

No one from abroad can dictate to us whether Poles are allowed to defend themselves against slandering.

Any way, any form necessary to defend himself; Negro should reserve the right to do that just the same as others have the right to do it.

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

For everybody has a natural right not only to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of everybody else, whose person or property is invaded. The natural right of each individual to defend his own person and property against an aggressor, and to go to the assistance and defence of every one else whose person or property is invaded, is a right without which men could not exist on earth.

In truth, we are the only developed country on earth with a constitution that recognizes the God-given right to keep and bear arms, and the human right of individual armed defense of self, family, home and country.

As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political.

The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.

If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force - for the same reason - cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.

If America has the right to target Osama bin Laden, or terrorists, of course Israel has the right to defend itself from terrorism.

If every person has the right to defend --- even by force --- his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right --- its reason for existing, its lawfulness --- is based on individual right.

We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be trusted.