#deterrence

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#deterrence #dictator #enemy #friend #made

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#been #commission #contrary #could #crime

Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#always #assure #comes #democrats #deter

We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence. ↗

— John Spratt

#deterrence #got #nuclear #nuclear weapons #order