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  2. Si vis pacem, para bellum - Wikipedia

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    Si vis pacem, para bellum (Classical Latin: [siː wiːs ˈpaːkɛ̃ ˈparaː ˈbɛllʊ̃]) is a Latin adage translated as "If you want peace, prepare for war." The phrase is adapted from a statement found in Roman author Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus 's tract Dē Rē Mīlitārī (fourth or fifth century AD), in which the actual phrasing is ...

  3. We shall fight on the beaches - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. " We shall fight on the beaches " was a speech delivered by the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 4 June 1940. This was the second of three major speeches given around the period of the Battle of France; the others are the "Blood, toil, tears and sweat" speech of ...

  4. Right of self-defense - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The right of self-defense (also called, when it applies to the defense of another, alter ego defense, defense of others, defense of a third person) is the right for people to use reasonable or defensive force, for the purpose of defending one's own life (self-defense) or the lives of others, including, in certain circumstances, the use ...

  5. Second Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The Supreme Court cited the Second Amendment indirectly by declaring that the United States Constitution obliges citizens "to defend our government against all enemies whenever necessity arises is a fundamental principle of the Constitution" [225] and by declaring further that the "common defense was one of the purposes for which the people ...

  6. Ella Blumenthal - Wikipedia

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    Ella Blumenthal (born 25 July 1921) is a Polish Holocaust survivor. In 1940, she was moved to the Warsaw Ghetto, where she participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. She and her niece Roma Rothstein were the only members of their immediate family to survive the Holocaust. She is the subject of the 2021 documentary I am Here.[1]

  7. Man sentenced to 25 years for teaching bomb-making to ... - AOL

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    “Buy food storage and prepare to defend yourselves and your family,” he said. Federal prosecutors charged Arthur with domestic terrorism enhancements related to the bomb-making instructions ...

  8. List of Latin phrases (P) - Wikipedia

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    to prepare for God a perfect people: motto of the St. Jean Baptiste High School: parce sepulto: forgive the interred: it is ungenerous to hold resentment toward the dead. Quote from the Aeneid, III 13-68. parens patriae: parent of the nation: A public policy requiring courts to protect the best interests of any child involved in a lawsuit. See ...

  9. Self-defense (United States) - Wikipedia

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    General rule. In the U.S., the general rule is that " [a] person is privileged to use such force as reasonably appears necessary to defend him or herself against an apparent threat of unlawful and immediate violence from another." [1] In cases involving non-deadly force, this means that the person must reasonably believe that their use of force ...