The use of force alone is but 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.
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The power that is supported by...
The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
The power that is supported by...
The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
The great questions of the day...
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
Some people draw a comforting ...
Some people draw a comforting distinction between ''force'' and ''violence.'' I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.
Force and not opinion is the q...
Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.
Coercion may prevent many tran...
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
Civilization is nothing more t...
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
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