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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."
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"There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights."
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"Right is its own defense."
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"And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense."
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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."
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"The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done."
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"Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries."
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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."
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"These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have."
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"That's how you win - pitching and defense."
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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."
Society

"I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking."
Thinking

"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."
Policy

"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."
War

"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."
Time

"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

"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."
War

"I'm against fashionable thinking."
Thinking

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

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