Letter (4 December 1801), printed in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (2002)
“That force is to be opposed to nothing, but to unjust and unlawful force.”
Second Treatise of Government, Ch. XVIII, sec. 204
Two Treatises of Government (1689)
Context: To this I answer: That force is to be opposed to nothing, but to unjust and unlawful force. Whoever makes any opposition in any other case, draws on himself a just condemnation, both from God and man…
“I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.”
Source: War and Peace
“We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.”
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 180.
“This was a great reward for us. We had not had the good fortune to meet the enemy in force.”
Quoted in "The Civilizing Mission: A History of the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1936" - Page 172 - by A. J. Barker - 1968
From the Author's Preface to Fourth Edition (1920)
Space—Time—Matter (1952)
“Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.”
National Rifle Association annual convention, , quoted in [2014-04-27, Sarah Palin talks waterboarding, guns at NRA convention, Jake Miller, CBS News, http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/sarah-palin-waterboarding-is-how-we-baptize-terrorists/]
2014
“Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.”
L'innocence, le plus souvent, est un bonheur et non pas une vertu.
Les Dieux Ont Soif http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Dieux_ont_soif_-_Chapitre_XV [The Gods Are Thirsty] (1912), ch. XV
“Ah, but it is incredible how often things force one to do the thing one would like to do.”
Death in the Clouds (1935)
Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
Context: Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest. An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. A nation that neglects either of these forces perishes. They must be steered together, like a pair of carriage horses.
