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• No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
• The enduring responsibility of the United States Air Force is to provide strategic deterrence for the Nation and fly, fight and win… — Norton A. Schwartz
• If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers… — Thomas Szasz
• The most fundamental paradox is that, if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use… — Ronald Reagan
• The problem with deterrence - apparently sometimes forgotten by our former presidents - is that it is not static, but a creature… — Victor Davis Hanson
• Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality. — Herman Kahn
• New Zealand's nuclear free movement is a broad-based and popular movement. Our nuclear free status is a challenge to much that is… — David Lange
• Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn a blind… — David Lange

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