Paul Harris Quotes

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.

Force in today's world, just as in the past, is what determines rights.

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

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

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

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

Force should never be the first answer, but sometimes it is the only answer.

You can't get a diplomatic solution unless behind that, is the threat of force.

The end of war is to procure by force the justice which cannot otherwise be obtained.

Diplomacy, is persuasion in the shadow of power.

The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.

UN administrators ... think that no problem in the world is too intractable to be solved by negotiation. These mandarins fail to grasp that men with guns do not respect men with nothing but flapping gums ... Just as the US Marine Corps breeds warriors, so the UN’s culture breeds conciliators.

What I have learned about Afghanistan is that force carries more weight than anything else.

Projectile: The final arbiter in international disputes …

Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

War is always an option. Peace is not.

If you don't want war, then you had better be an advocate for diplomacy with muscle.

Violence is my last option.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.