Force Legitimacy Quotes

Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.

The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible political goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence...

The use of military force against Iraq and Afghanistan was and remains just.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

You know in the West they support realistic forces.

When the principle that force is right is become the principle of the nation itself, they would not permit an honest minister, were accident to bring such a one into power, to relax their system of lawless piracy.

Too frequent or too quick a resort to force can also undermine the authority of power. Not all use of force is created equal. Other states will grant authority to the use of force, implicitly if not otherwise, if it falls within the bonds of justice and reason; if they think a use of force does not fall within such bonds, they will withdraw their legitimate consent, and thereby undermine the authority of power.

Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.