"[Self-Defence for Individuals and Society through Personal Self-Defense, Police and the Military:] The peaceable part of mankind will be continually overrun by the vile and abandoned while they neglect the means of self-defense. The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian"

Author: Thomas Paine

Notes: (1737-1809) 'US Founding Father', pamphleteer and author. Source: 'Writings Of Thomas Paine' (M. Conway ed. 1894)