Al Capone Quotes

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.

There’s no reason to respect anyone’s word in that part of the world. The only thing they respect is force and the threat of force.

Negotiation is not a solution and will not solve anything. Those who think of negotiation when they are threatened only reveal their weakness and incapability. That is a bad move.

Success in diplomacy is often most advantageous when it is incomplete, an adversary needs an honorable path of retreat if we are to achieve our main policy goals through the reputation of our power rather than through the actual use of force.

Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.

Unless you’re prepared to use force, it’s very difficult to deal with a person who understands only force.

If you threaten force, you better be ready to use it.

Soft power … cannot accomplish much in the absence of a willingness to use hard power.

'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.

We don't want to use our strength, but you have to have our strength.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

I talk a big game because I carry a big stick.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with just a kind word.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Arabs respect only the language of force.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done

Power alone is respected and ... in order to gain peace, the United States has no alternative but to wield it

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.