Self-defense

Self-defense is a countermeasure that involves defending the health and well-being of oneself from harm.

Quotes

 * He knew from experience that “self-defense” could mean whatever a person or group wanted it to mean.
 * Philip José Farmer, The Dark Design (1977), Chapter 19


 * Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
 * Douglas William Jerrold, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).