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 | ""T is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any
portion of the foreign world." | |
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George Washington
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| "As long as we can keep our international relations in the realm of
conference rather than open conflict, we are giving truth more time to
vindicate itself. And what we ourselves need is more faith in the power of
truth." | |
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Ralph W. Sockman D.D.
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| "Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of
worlds, I see no remedy but force." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "But Darth Vader warns of the awesome power of the Force: "Don"t be
too proud of this technological terror you"ve constructed. The ability to
destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force."" | |
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Darth Vader
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| "Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, and a dark side,
and it holds the universe together." | |
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Carl Zwanzig
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| "For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no
tongue." | |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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| "Force always attracts men of low morality." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; But it is opinion
that uses force." | |
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Blaise Pascal
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| "I don"t want people who want to dance; I want people who have to
dance." | |
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George Balanchine
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| "In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for
anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the
final supremacy of brute force." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we
are, richer than we are, but we don"t feel all that comfortable with
people who are." | |
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Mickey Manfield
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| "No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force
of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need
for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot
stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them
again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free." | |
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J. Michael Straczynski
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| "Not believing in force is the same as not believing in
gravitation." | |
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Leon Trotsky
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| "One person with a belief is a social power equal to 99 who have only
interests." | |
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John Stuart Mill
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| "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations ? entangling
alliances with none." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use
of physical force against others.... When a man attempts to deal with me
by force, I answer him by force. It is only as retaliation that force may
be used and only against the man who starts its use. No, I do not share
his evil or sink to his concept of morality: I merely grant him his
choice, destruction, the only destruction he had the right to choose: his
own." | |
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Ayn Rand
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| "TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by
stealth." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it
is generally employed only by small children and large nations." | |
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David Friedman
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| "The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the
force of gravitation." | |
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George S. Hilliard
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| "We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed." | |
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Henry Miller
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| "When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will
follow." | |
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Charles Colson
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| "Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe." | |
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John Milton
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