Force Quotes

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The spread of democracy is a wonderful thing-it is a necessary foundation for peace-and it can happen. But it cannot be advanced by force, and… — Jonathan Schell
The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first inaugural address, the… — Thomas G. West
There can be no limitation of that authority which is to provide for the defense and protection of the community in any matter essential to… — Alexander Hamilton
So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . When a man… — Ayn Rand
An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an… — Albert Einstein
The greatest attribute of God is Love. The Tree of Life is located in the very depth of our soul. The most perfect and abundant… — Baird T. Spalding
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no God... Were a… — Thomas Paine
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to… — Lewis Mumford
He has made us the master organizers of the world . . . to overwhelm the forces of reaction throught the earth . . .… — Albert J. Beveridge
America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage. — Ronald Reagan
Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain. Their arts may… — Samuel Adams
I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay… — Thomas Paine
THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding… — William Blackstone
`Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every… — George Washington
The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must… — Alexander Hamilton
At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the right, or that… — James Madison
A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents all… — Alexander Hamilton
Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our… — Thomas Jefferson
Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting… — Alexander Hamilton
The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land. — Alexander Hamilton

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