... force always attracts men of low morality ...

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

Justice without force is impotent, force without justice is tyranny... Not being able to make what is just strong, we make what was strong just.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

The use of force alone is temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.

Force without reason falls of its own weight.

When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.

Force works on servile natures, not the free.

When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.