Defensive Measures Quotes

When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.

A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

We're going to have to make it clear that we don't want to use the kinds of tools that we have. We don't want to engage in a different kind of warfare. But we will defend the citizens of this country.

Defense comes with defensive concepts.

The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

What were you going to do with it?” McCain asked. "I just thought it might come in useful.” "Were you planning to attack me?” "No. But that’s a good idea.

I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy.

We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.

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

In cases of defense, it is best to weigh the enemy more than he seems.

Preventive self defense is permissible under the Charter of the United Nations. The Charter is a treaty governed by the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.

There never was a new prince who has disarmed his subjects; rather when he has found them disarmed, he has always armed them, because, by arming them, those arms become yours...

The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!

Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.

The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.

As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.

Legitimate steps of self-defence which Israel takes in its war against Palestinian terror - actions which any sovereign state is obligated to undertake to ensure the security of its citizens - are presented by those who hate Israel as aggressive, Nazi-like steps.

If a predator tries to get a hold of you, yell, kick, and punch. Do all of the typical self-defense measures you've heard of - eye-gouging, knee to the crotch. Anything you can do to cause a scene.

Every nation has an undoubted right to provide for its own safety, and to take due precaution against distant as well as impending danger. The right of self-preservation is paramount to all other considerations

The Palestinians cannot throw rockets and expect people not to defend themselves