Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Nikola Tesla

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.
Ron Paul

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

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Everett Dirksen

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
Mike Tyson

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.
Gracie Allen

Disunion by force is treason.
Andrew Jackson

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

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.
Richard M. Nixon

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
Thomas J. Watson

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
H. L. Mencken

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
H. L. Mencken

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
William Wordsworth

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.
Susan Sontag

Not that money is a driving force. It's an honor to play for your country.
Payne Stewart

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
Thomas Sowell