Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

I am convinced of the necessity to take an effective measure of self defense.

May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

Freedom is my birthright. I must have it.

Every person born into this world has a natural right to sustain, preserve, and defend his own life to the best of his ability.

Freedom is a God-given right. This means maximising liberty while minimising harm to others. Owning an AR-15 does no harm to others. Using it to kill people does. So murder is not a right. But property ownership — especially for defense — is.

To be armed for personal defence is the right of every man, to be armed to defend freedom and the existence of the common fatherland is the right of every citizen

And I will defend myself and my children, by the grace of God.

I believe that every human being has the right to his life and to his liberty, and to act in this world so as to secure his own happiness.

I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.

To defend oneself is not only lawful but also an expression of love of country.

...self-reliance is the best defense against the pressures of the moment.

Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1368, unanimously passed, explicitly recognized the right of the United States to self-defense and further called upon all member states 'to bring to justice the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of the terrorist attacks. It added that 'those responsible for aiding, supporting or harboring the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of those acts will be held accountable.' In a speech the following month, the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan publicly acknowledged the right of self-defense as a legitimate basis for military action. The SEAL unit dispatched by President Obama to Abbottabad was large enough to allow for the contingency of bin-Laden's capture and detention. The naïve statement that he was 'unarmed' when shot is only loosely compatible with the fact that he was housed in a military garrison town, had a loaded automatic weapon in the room with him, could well have been wearing a suicide vest, had stated repeatedly that he would never be taken alive, was the commander of one of the most violent organizations in history, and had declared himself at war with the United States. It perhaps says something that not even the most casuistic apologist for al-Qaeda has ever even attempted to justify any of its 'operations' in terms that could be covered by any known law, with the possible exception of some sanguinary verses of the Koran.

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.