In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
Stopping all the violent and hostile actions means ending the smuggling of arms into the Gaza territory.
We will defend ourselves, and we have full rights to do so. If the authorities try to destroy us, we have the right to rise up. Sooner or later this will happen.
Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.
Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.
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-abiding deprived of the use of them.
My belief is that if we take away that right to bear arms, the only people that are going to have them are... the ones breaking into your house.
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.