"Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not."

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"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe."

John Milton, English Poet

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Force, Laws, Meaning

"The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Force, Reason

"I do feel we can create more jobs and opportunities for Jersey City residents, but in the spirit of free enterprise, I do not think it is right to force companies to hire a fixed percentage of local residents."

Vincent Frank, American Author

Force, Jobs, Right, Spirit

"One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires."

Robert Collier, American Publisher

Force, Horses

"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."

William James, American Philosopher

Force, Holiday, Man

"No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech."

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

Force, Help, Speech, Witty

"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."

Thomas Hobbes, English Philosopher

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"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe."

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

"The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved."

"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."

"Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one."

"I do feel we can create more jobs and opportunities for Jersey City residents, but in the spirit of free enterprise, I do not think it is right to force companies to hire a fixed percentage of local residents."

"One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires."

"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."

"No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech."

"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."

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"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift."

"We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger."

"To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory."

"My sweetest hope is to lose hope."

"Every man of courage is a man of his word."

"When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph."

"Peace is produced by war."

"Brave men are brave from the very first."

"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."

"He who does not fear death cares naught for threats."