Force Quotes

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real.

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.

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous.

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation.

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.