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“Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were”
Horace
“I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence”
Malcolm X
“A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.”
James Madison
“The aims of life are the best defense against death.”
Primo Levi
“Humor is just another defense against the universe.”
Mel Brooks
“But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.”
Abraham Maslow
“Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.”
John Adams
“The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.”
William F. Buckley Jr.
“Education is the cheap defense of nations”
Edmund Burke
“Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it”
Douglas William Jerrold
