#retaliate

Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked. ↗

— Stephen M. Walt

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Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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I don't initiate violence, I retaliate. ↗

— Chuck Norris

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There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. ↗

— Wendell Berry

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Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

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My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

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