"Even an inaccurate missile is quite a deterrent." — Caspar Weinberger

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• Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy… — Omar N. Bradley
• First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent… — Dominique Wilkins
• I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.… — Andrei Sakharov
• Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity… — Auberon Waugh
• It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree....I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds… — Albert Pierrepoint
• The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of… — Thurgood Marshall
• If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If… — Unknown Author
• The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often. — Edward Abbey
• The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery. — John F. Kennedy
• When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
• Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray!… — Leonard Ravenhill
• One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land.… — Henry A. Kissinger

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