“Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.”

COMPARE TO OBAMA’S “LEAD FROM BEHIND”

Deterrence, in the famous formulation of the 17th-century British statesman George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax:

“Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.” Translated, that means that nations do not go to war just over Czechoslovakia, but that other nations are not swallowed up like Czechoslovakia.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429055/deterrence-obamas-mistakes