Facts Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.

— Leon Trotsky

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary…

— Aristotle

The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force

— Thomas Sowell

that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.

— Marianne Moore

Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon as it…

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

Concepts become forces when they resist one another

— Johann Friedrich Herbart

Displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive.

— Eric Holder

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating the operation…

— William Robertson Smith

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

— Thomas Huxley

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know…

— Leon Trotsky