Force has no place where there is need of skill.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Force is not a remedy.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.
There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.
If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.
There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.