Jeff Cooper Self Defense Quotations

It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep your head.

Now how do we cultivate an aggressive response? I think the answer is indignation... Your response, if attacked, must not be fear, it must be anger.

Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation.

Under any sort of attack, keep cool. And if you must shoot, shoot with precision.

Let your attacker worry about his life. Don't hold back. Strike no more after he is incapable of further action, but see that he is stopped.

Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.

On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.

Your physical safety is up to you, as it really always has been.

If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you not only imperil your own life, but you jeopardize the lives of others.

Anyone who willfully and maliciously attacks another without sufficient cause deserves no consideration.

We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.

The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack.