James A. Garfield Quotes

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

Black is a colour of power and strength.

Only force rules. Force is the first law

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

Strength times strength times strength times strength times strength times strength means power.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

This is the great fact: strength is life.

The mountain violets break the rocks.

One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Albert guy was not stupid. With will you can achieve things.

Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.

Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.

The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

To be alive──is Power.

The good thing about being explosive is that no one can beat you.

Getting people to fight by letting the force of momentum work is like rolling logs and rocks. Logs and rocks are still when in a secure place, but roll on an incline; they remain stationary if square, they roll if round. Therefore, when people are skillfully led into battle, the momentum is like that of round rocks rolling down a high mountain - this is force.

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

We have become a force of nature.

Love is a clash of lightnings

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.