Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people from the government.

It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep your head.

In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in.

Speed is the absolute essence of any form of combat

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

By doing what our assailant least expects us to do, we may throw him completely off. ... what he usually least suspects is instant, violent counterattack, so the principle of aggressiveness is closely tied to threat of surprise.

Your physical safety is up to you, as it really always has been.