Quotes About Force

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. And with it, everything honorable and glorious.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

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

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

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

religious conviction, and the truths Christianity teaches about the inalienable dignity of every human life, can be a dynamic, creative force, bending history in a more human direction.

Those who still profess the rule of hope, teach optimism only by force of habit, without believing in what they say.

The idea of using extraordinary force does not mean more of the same effort. Extraordinary action results from out-of-the-box thinking.

Gravity is always attractive.

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it it opinion that uses the force.

Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost possible achievement-these are the martial virtues which must command success.

Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide, as ours has done ..., whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies ... the real man.

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs-to kill people and to destroy the works of man.

You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

That great artillery of God Almighty.