"It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense."

Defence, Defense, Grave, Limits

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"It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense."

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"Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"Right is its own defense."

Bertolt Brecht, German Poet

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"The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes."

Dusty Baker, American Athlete

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"These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have."

Bill Kristol, American Politician

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"That's how you win - pitching and defense."

Derek Jeter, American Athlete

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"If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough."

Jon Huntsman, Jr., American Politician

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"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American Statesman

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"Leaving Iraq without military assistance during its transition, and before it is stable enough to ensure its own citizens' security, would pose a tremendous risk. We must complete our mission."

Doc Hastings, American Politician

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"The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen."

Lech Walesa, Polish Activist

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"A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security."

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"The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing."

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"The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own."

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"For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur."

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"It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense."

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"In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it."

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"I'm against fashionable thinking."

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"Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion."

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"New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war."

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