Forcible Quotes

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.