He insists, “The king’s true faithful subject I am and will be, and daily I pray for him and for all his.” He voices a bottom line in the face of condemnation: “I do nobody harm, I say none harm, I think none harm, but wish everybody good. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, in good faith I long not to live.” That’s the premise of First Line of Defense: The Catholic Man’s Call to Heroism, by Douglas Barry and Daniel O’Connor. Tiberius quotes Aristotle, who says that the best friendships are “made up of men who are good and alike in virtue.”