So long as an individual, whether person or state, has only his own arms to depend upon in order to defend his rights by arms, then he must be stronger than anyone likely to challenge those rights. Which means that that other is deprived of similar defense. Within the frontiers man long ago made the discovery that the only way out of that dilemma is for the community, by putting its combined power behind a protective law, to assume the defense of the individual. Defense must be a communal, a collective function, or it cannot exist effectively at all.

Within the state we have made defense of the individual the obligation of the whole community, and by that fact have established such preponderance of power on…

The conception that we can only protect ourselves if we are prepared to protect others surely ought to belong to the nursery stage of social education. But suc…

We use power, of course, in the international fields in a way which is the exact contrary to the way in which we use it within the state. In the international …

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property...Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abidi…

If the government can round up someone and never be required to explain why, then it's no longer the United States of America as you and I always understood it…

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.