Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

There is no real force without justice.

Do not expect justice where might is right.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.

The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.

Force is not a remedy.

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.

Force is of brutes.

Force without reason falls of its own weight.

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.