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“The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.”

Men Doe Force Causes Arms Honor Bravery Brave Desert Be Brave Applause Brutes Brave Man Foils

Author:John Dryden

“In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.”

Force Opinion Arms Kings Overcoming Shameful Bribery

Author:Sallust

“My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.”

Force Christ Morning Arms Weakness Get Up Assets

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning.”

Soul Lying Winning Strong Force Arms Civilization Civilized Conventions Reach Out Weary Strokes Cunning Strong Arms Anon

Book:The Troll Garden: Short Stories

Source: The Troll Garden: Short Stories

“A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.”

Way Two Force Arms Weight Scales Pairs Pulling Equilibrium

Book:Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“Let us build a structure of peace in the world in which the weak are as safe as the strong in which each respects the right of the other to live by a different system in which those who would influence others will do so by the strength of their ideas, and not by the force of their arms. Let us accept that high responsibility not as a burden, but gladly gladly because the chance to build such a peace is the noblest endeavor in which a nation can engage.”

World Ideas Different Strong Force Nations Peace Chance Responsibility Accepting Influence Arms Safe Weak Structure Burden Live By Endeavor

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.”

Faces Force Arms Threat Credible

Book:Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

“The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in their Army, and the man they had most desired to become its Commander-in-Chief. It is very clear that he had a superb sense of operational possibilities and equal mastery in the conduct of operations, together with a greater grasp of the potentialities of mechanized forces than any other commander who had not been trained in the tank arm. In sum, he had military genius.”

Men Together Force Clear Greater Military Fields Possibility He Man Arms Genius Equal Army Chiefs Operations Mastery Tanks Commanders Verdict Superb Commander In Chief

Author:Erich von Manstein

“The United States initially poured money and arms into Pakistan in the hope of building a major fighting force that could assist in defending Asia against communism. Pakistan repeatedly failed to live up to its promises to provide troops for any of the wars the United States fought against communist forces, instead using American weapons in its wars with India.”

War States Fighting Force United United States Building Arms Promise Majors Weapons India Communism Communist Troops Asia Pakistan

Book:Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding

Source: Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding

“Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.”

Giving Law Force Justice Arms Law And Justice

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Enough of satire; in less harden'd times Great was her force, and mighty were her rhymes. I've read of men, beyond man's daring brave, Who yet have trembled at the strokes she gave; Whose souls have felt more terrible alarms From her one line, than from a world in arms.”

Men World Soul Enough Force Felt Lines Arms Terrible Brave Satire Daring Rhyme Strokes Alarms One Line

Book:The Poems of Charles Churchill

Source: The Poems of Charles Churchill

“We do not have the right to forget that reactionary imperialism exists and its forces actively operate in the world, that they encourage the arms race and that they try to restore the spirit of the Cold War.”

World Trying War Spirit Force Forget Race Arms Cold Cold War Imperialism Reactionaries Arms Race

Author:Andrei Grechko

“The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force of arms, nobody "owns" the earth, anymore than the moon, the planets, the stars themselves.”

Said Earth Force Stars Land Planets Arms Moon Shots Shells Coins Conquest Monopoly

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“For extending its sway, partly by force of arms, partly by the voluntary submission of weaker tribes, the community soon acquires wealth and slaves, both of which, by relieving some classes from the perpetual struggle for a bare subsistence, afford them an opportunity of devoting themselves to that disinterested pursuit of knowledge which is the noblest and most powerful instrument to ameliorate the lot of man.”

“If passed by the U.N. and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the U.N. Small Arms Treaty would almost certainly force the United States to... create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.”

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Author:Paul Broun

“If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?”

Ifs Men World Made Jesus Force Christ Existence Christianity Arms Jesus Christ Mark Mere Deny Invention Infidel Bribery

Author:J. C. Ryle

“The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body & flee earth with its constant heartbeat of death, but Goddess forces us back to embrace them, to take our human life in our arms & clasp it for the divine life it is - the nice, sanitary, harmonious moment as well as the painful, dark, splintered ones.”

“The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms.”

Way Would Be Force Prayer Arms Ten Scary Commandments Ten Commandments Courtroom

Author:Fob James

“We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest--blank; and the world tells uswhat we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says--Work; and to us it says--Seem! To you it says--As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labour is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says--Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labour. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.”

Source: The Story of an African Farm: A Novel

“Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.”

Ifs Men Littles Soul Joy Force He Man Arms Sorrow Hundred Conscience Labor Workers Shed Tranquility Thorough Sulky

Author:William Wilberforce

“Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.”

Force Friendship Kindness Support Arms Friends Army Loyalty Sincerity Thrones Offspring Treasury

Author:Sallust

“A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.”

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Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

“The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.”

World Soul Whole Force Arms Whole World

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“We are a people with no army, no navy, no air force, no arms. It's people, thousands of people, who are feeling, sensing the sense of urgency, fearing for the president of their life - the life of their president, trying to protect their democratic choice, because Arafat is the elected leader of the Palestinian people.”

People Trying Feelings Choices Force President Leader Air Arms Protect Army Democratic Palestinian Navy Urgency Air Force Sensing Sense Of Urgency Arafat Elected Leaders

Author:Saeb Erekat

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”

“India is committed to strong armed forces, well-equipped with modern arms & technology!”

Wells Strong Force Technology Modern Arms India Committed Governance Armed Forces

Author:Narendra Modi

“I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that the time had come when there should be no war, and that religion and peace should reign throughout the world.”

Thinking World Should War Age Force Arms Appeals Civil War Reign Brutes No War Brute Force Unbecoming

Author:Robert Anderson

“No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.”

People Thinking Long Government Force Common Mankind Security Arms Authority Peace And Security

Author:John Locke

“The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the momentous question whether you possess the power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union”

May States Courses Force Events Arms Unions Arise Emergencies

Book:The Works of James Buchanan: Comprising His Speeches, State Papers, and Private Correspondence

Source: The Works of James Buchanan: Comprising His Speeches, State Papers, and Private Correspondence

“Yet this perhaps is what love does, or the memory of it; it sucks the life from the living, glorying body and leaves it, when love has gone, a shred, a simulacrum - dross, to be swept up from the factory floor, pitiful and dusty, useless... Do all men and women feel love before they die? This force, this source of light, that lies before the sun; glances off mountains and lakes, blinding and dazzling, on a Sunday afternoon; so brilliant you have to guard your soul, fold your arms to shield your heart from the very memory of it.”

“Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms race with a reckless proliferation of the most destructive power ever unleashed, tailored for delivery by a vast array of vehicles to a stupefying array of targets.”

“Every Conservative desires peace. The threat to peace comes from Communism which has powerful forces ready to attack anywhere. Communism waits for weakness, it leaves strength alone. Britain must therefore be strong, strong in her arms, strong in her faith, strong in her own way of life.”

Way Desire Strong Force Waiting Powerful Ready Arms Weakness Threat Conservative Communism Britain

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.”

Ifs Force Numbers Military Duty Arms Understood Europe Soldier Command Obedience Formidable Military Force

Book:The Student's Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The Student's Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.”

Together Force Moral Principles Arms Civilization Intellectual Subtle Thread

Author:Russell Kirk

“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms.”

Men Way Children Use Force Nations Wish Understanding Arms Every Man Settling Disputes Resorts Wipe Men Women Drastic Understanding You

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“We need to embed our forces - our troops inside the Iraqi military. We need to arm directly the Kurds. And all of that has to be done in concert with the Arab nations.”

Needs Done Force Nations Military Arms Concerts Troops Our Troops Kurds

Author:Jeb Bush

“Cuba forces in Angola gave a real shot in the arm to the liberation movements, and it also was a lesson to the white South Africans that the end is coming. They can't just hope to subdue the continent on racist grounds.”

Real Ends Force White Movement Arms Lessons Shots South Liberation Racist Continents South Africa Cuba Angola

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I'm also a sucker for a view. Take me to a high place where I can see the landscape or the stars or the whole city, and I'm putty, I'm melting in your arms. Then I think having a romantic night, getting a little dressed up, but don't kill yourself trying to force the romance. A bunch of little subtle changes that will make the day more special will amount to a big awesome day in your memory. I like little breadcrumbs along the way. Draw it out!”

“Equipping one side of an ethnic conflict and then prodding it to resolve its ethnic problems by force of arms is a very bad policy.”

Problem Force Sides Policy Arms Conflict Resolve Ethnic Conflict

Author:Vladimir Putin

“You cannot export revolution, progress, by force of arms.”

Force Progress Revolution Arms

Author:Rashid Khalidi

“If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy. And what America is trying to do is pass laws to force whites to pretend that they want Negroes into their schools or into - in their places of employment.”

Ifs Men Want Trying School America Law Force White Arms Gun Embrace Employment Hypocrisy Friendly Brotherhood White Man Brotherly

Author:Malcolm X

“Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.”

Way War Force Peace Example Arms Ideals Spread Setting Settings Anti War Antiwar Fog Better Ways I Hate You Good Examples Setting An Example Setting A Good Example

Author:Ron Paul

“No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.”

Force Forever Arms Population Dictator Invaders Babylon

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.”

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Book:An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System

Source: An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System

“Um, Bella? You've got a huge cut on your forehead, and it's gushing blood," he informed me. I clapped my hand over my head. Sure enough, it was wet and sticky. I could smell nothing but the damp moss on my face, and that held off the nausea. Oh, I'm so sorry, Jacob." I pushed hard against the gash, as if I could force the blood back inside my head. Why are you apologizing for bleeding?" he wondered as he wrapped a long arm around my waist and and pulled me to my feet.”

Ifs Long Hard Enough Hands Faces Force Cutting Blood Feet Huge Arms Sorry Smell If I Could Wet Apologizing Foreheads Bleeding Jacob Moss Damp Sticky Nausea I'm So Sorry

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of emotional self-sufficiency lying on my bed and sitting at my desk, watching the gulls cartwheeling in the clouds over the bridges, cradling myself in my own arms, breathing warm chocolate-and-vodka breath on a rose I had found on a street corner, trying to force it to bloom.”

Source: Life After God

“Summer came. For the book thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. When their bodies had finished scouring for gaps in the door, their souls rose up. When their fingernails had scratched at the wood and in some cases were nailed into it by the sheer force of desperation, their spirits came toward me, into my arms, and we climbed out of those shower facilities, onto the roof and up, into eternity's certain breadth. They just kept feeding me. Minute after minute. Shower after shower.”

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Author:Markus Zusak

“And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. My legs are programmed to trot briskly and my arms to pump up and down like pistons, but I force myself to stroll past the stalls and pavement cafes. To enjoy just being somewhere, rather than rushing from somewhere, to somewhere. Inhaling deep lungfuls of air, instead of my usual shallow breaths. I take a moment to just stop and look around me. And smile to myself. For the first time in a long time, I can, quite literally, smell the coffee.”