Deter Quotes

66 quotes by 54 authors

I donâ€™t know why liberals want to disarm the law-abiding population, but I do know that not a single argument proffered stands the light of… — Paul Craig Roberts
If I have an agenda or a goal, no one is going to deter me from what I want to do. — Michael Jordan
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing. — Bernard Levin
What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter… — Ronald Reagan
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which… — Richard Whately
The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained… — Theodore White
Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to… — Al Gore
It is my fervent goal and hope... that we will someday no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world… — Ronald Reagan
As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn… — Martin Van Creveld
No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. — Colonel Sanders
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain… — Barbara Deming
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter… — Horace
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to… — Joseph Addison
Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam… — Al Gore
Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it. — Ann Coulter
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in… — Eartha Kitt
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. — Abraham Lincoln
Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter… — Steven Pinker
The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian… — Steven Pinker
Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against minorities, especially since… — Ralph Nader

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