Force
- The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
-- Lajos Kossuth
- 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.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
- We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, the blow with an agreement.
-- Leon Trotsky
- Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
-- Abraham Lincoln
- There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.
-- Woodrow Wilson
- Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.
-- Blaise Pascal
- Force is not a remedy.
-- John Bright
- Right reason is stronger than force.
-- James A. Garfield
Foreign Policy
- By this I mean that a political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.
-- George F. Kennan
- The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Forgiveness
- Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
-- Jean Paul Richter
- He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.
-- Koran, sura 42
- I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
- Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
-- Ausonius
- It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
-- Madame Dorothée Deluzy
- The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
- The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
-- Josh Billings
- Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.
-- Oscar Wilde
- To err is human; to forgive, divine.
-- Alexander Pope
- A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
-- Ed Howe
Fortune
- Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
-- Sallust
- He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
-- Vincent Voiture
- It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
-- John Dryden
- Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
-- James Russell Lowell
- Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
-- Douglas Jerrold
- Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
-- Mark Twain
- Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
-- Oliver Goldsmith
Fraud
- The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
-- Gamaliel Bailey
- All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
-- Richard Whately
- The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
- It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.
-- Publilius Syrus
- For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
-- Charles Simmons
- Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
-- Josh Billings
Freedom
- Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
-- Cicero
- The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
-- Eric Hoffer
- We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
-- Thomas Paine
- The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
-- Thomas Huxley
- No man is free who is not a master of himself.
-- Epictetus
- We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.
-- Ed Howe
- A hungry man is not a free man.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson
- When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
-- Charles Evans Hughes
- Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
-- Abraham Lincoln
- I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land or life, if freedom fail?
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
- Freedom rings where opinions clash.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson
- To be what no one ever was,
To be what everyone has been:
Freedom is the mean of those
Extremes that fence all effort in.
-- Mark Van Doren
- Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
-- Thomas Paine
- Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson
- The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children.
-- William Havard
- The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
-- Kahlil Gibran
- No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
-- Douglas MacArthur
- A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
-- Kemal Atatürk
- Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.
-- Richard M. Nixon
- We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
-- Albert Camus
- I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
-- Simone de Beauvoir
Freedom of the Press
- Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
-- Thomas Jefferson
- The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.
-- Samuel Johnson
- Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights.
-- Junius
- The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson
- The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
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