Forceful Resolution Quotes

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

To carry the spirit of peace into war is a weak and cruel policy. When an extreme case calls for that remedy which is in its own nature most violent, and which, in such cases, is a remedy only because it is violent, it is idle to think of mitigating and diluting. Languid war can do nothing which negotiation or submission will do better: and to act on any other principle is, not to save blood and money, but to squander them.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions ... but by iron and blood.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

In the early years of America's skyjacking epidemic, the airlines were reluctant to let the FBI attempt to end hijackings by force; they feared that innocents would get caught in the crossfire, thereby sparking a wave of negative publicity.