Force Quote by Alfred Thayer Mahan Download Open image “Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.” — Alfred Thayer Mahan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Force Inspirational Known Love Power
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
You can't ever force anything, and you have to deal with what comes to you as it comes. — Luke Hemsworth Copy Share Image
Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There has been a constant struggle on the part of the military element to keep the end- fighting, or readiness to fight-superior to mere… — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet. — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it. — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the… — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice. — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like land birds,… — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every… — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
“The history of sea power is largely, though by no means solely, a narrative of contests between nations, of mutual rivalries, of violence frequently… — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant must he… — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world. — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
