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Force Quotes
"What was taken by force, can only be restored by force."
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"We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the spirit of the Great Arab Revolt."
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"The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back."
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"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever."
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"You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish."
22
"Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think."
18
"However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation."
15
"The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once."
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"How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law."
15
"Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital."
15
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
15
"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force."
15
"The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force."
14
"If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force."
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"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity."
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"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man."
13
"Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so."
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"Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?"
13
"We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary."
12
"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."
11
"It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best."
11
"We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers."
11
"To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him."
11
"The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher."
11
"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."
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