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Weapons
«Under no circumstances should we now ease our restrictions on arms sales to Iran. Such a policy reversal would be seen as inexplicably inconsistent by those nations whom we have urged to refrain from such sales, and would likely lead to increased arms sales by them and a possible alteration of the strategic balance in favor of Iran while (the Ayatollah) Khomeini is still the controlling influence.»
«There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons... But those people are the folks we can deal with anyway.»
Author: Gen Charles Horner
| About:
Weapons
| Keywords:
deter, deterred, deterring, nuclear, nuclear weapon, nuclear weapons
«The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent»
Author: Phillip Adams
| About:
America and Americans,
Crime,
Weapons
| Keywords:
armed, blades, buy at, carried, September, September 11
«Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts»
Author: Mao Tse-Tung
| About:
Weapons
| Keywords:
counts, decisive, decisive factor, factor, factor in, materials, weapons
«The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness»
Author: Niels Bohr
(Physicist)
| About:
Democracy,
Government,
Weapons
| Keywords:
dictatorship, openness, secrecy
«The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws...»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Constitution,
Country,
Justice,
Law and lawyers,
Weapons
| Keywords:
foundations, The Chief
«The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Country,
Law and lawyers,
Weapons
| Keywords:
composite, composites, foundations, inevitably