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FORCE
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Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?
      - Honore de Balzac

Force is no remedy.
      - John Bright

Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the center of that. There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has force in it; how else could it rot?
      - Thomas Carlyle

Force always attracts men of low morality.
      - Albert Einstein

We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
      - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Right reason is stronger than force.
      - James Abram Garfield

Everything is heaving and great events are pending, and it is hard to study Genesis when all is now Revelation.
      - Melancthon Williams Jacobus

Force cannot give right.
      - Thomas Jefferson

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
      - Thomas Jefferson

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
      - Louis Kossuth

That which had no force in the beginning can gain no strength from the lapse of time.
      - Legal Maxim

What otherwise is good and just, if it be aimed at by fraud or violence, becomes evil and unjust.
      - Legal Maxim

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
      - Abraham Lincoln

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.
      - Karl Marx

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
      - Henry Miller

Who overcomes by force
  hath overcome but half his foe.
      - John Milton

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.
      - Blaise Pascal

To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival; to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight.
      - Ayn Rand

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