Quotes About Force

By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

Artillery is the god of war.

One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.

It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

The point of what we are all doing, wherever we are doing it, whether or not we see our actions in exactly the same framework, is to create spaces in which humans and nature can thrive, to make demands on the present system and force it to respond, to find contradictions in it and heighten them, to bend it until it either gives way or snaps.

It was true that the ghastly sounds I had heard through the fog had greatly upset me but far worse was what emanated from and surrounded these things and arose to unsteady me, an atmosphere, a force - I do not exactly know what to call it - of evil and uncleanness, of terror and suffering, of malevolence and bitter anger