Defensive Action Quotes

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you... it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.

Stand your ground means stand your ground. It doesn't mean chase after somebody who's turned their back.

How you going to stop me, cupcake? Hit me with your book bag?" "If I have to.

Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.

Anyone who appears to be triggered out of watchfulness and into action by your appearance must be explained. Anyone observing you carefully must be explained. Anyone whose behavior seems to be geared to yours must be explained. If the explanation does not satisfy you, be ready to take appropriate defensive action.

My friends doubt about this Danish business. I own the policy doubtful; but our right is clear, if self defense is clear. They would have become our enemies very shortly. Still, our national character is injured.

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.

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

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.

When the whites themselves are attacked, they believe in defending themselves and things of that sort.

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 to pursue, and if that course is to counterattack, carry it out with everything you've got! Be indignant. Be angry. Be aggressive.

If the fight comes unsolicited, I am not willing to die meekly, to surrender without an effort. And that being so, am I still a pacifist?

There is going to be no involvement of America in war unless it is the result of the Constitutional process that is placed upon Congress to declare it.

American nation will not wait to be attacked again. We will defend our freedom and we will take the fight to the enemy.

If any guy threatened her she'd probably suffocate him with her oversized tee.

When you feel your family is being threatened and hurt, you speak up. And then you put your head down and go back about your business.

Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

What? It's not my fault I stab all the fanged people. They shouldn't look like Daimons. (Tabitha) I didn't look like a Daimon, but you stabbed me. (Valerius) Yeah, well, you looked like a lawyer so I had to kill you. It was a moral imperative. (Tabitha)

I wasn’t getting obliterated, but I was getting a kick. I was very method on that. That’s why I’d have gone along with it [if Tom had hit her]. But Tom was like: ‘Oh my God – I hope you don’t murder me!’

I don't reject the concept of preemptive war. I'm a mother of five. I have five grandchildren. And I always say: Think of a lioness. Think of a mother bear. You come anywhere near our cubs, you're dead. And so, in terms of any threat to our country, people have to know we'll be there to preemptively strike. But what the president [Bush] did was, on the basis of no real intelligence for an imminent threat to our country, chose to go into a war for reasons that are still unknown to us.

Don’t,” Michael said. It was soft, and it was a warning, through and through. “You try to hurt her again and I’ll pull your arm off.