#terre

Most Americans will be horrified that President Obama is compromising our deterrent to chemical and biological attacks on this country. Our allies will also be troubled by his aspiration to eliminate U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#also #aspiration #attacks #biological #chemical

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work. ↗

— Robert A. Taft

#deterrent #earning #effort #hard #hard work

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#down #encouragement #i #kind #lack

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence". ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#amount #balance #been #concepts #constitutes

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#ball #clear #clear conscience #conscience #either

Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#amid #country #deterrence #difficult #geographically

That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#framework #group #interrelated #involve #logical

Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#deterrent #intend #introduce #israel #look

The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened. ↗

— Stephen M. Walt

#deterrent #fact #feel #kind #makes

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#cannot #dangerous #examined #light #mortal