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The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements.

Gerd von Rundstedt

Danger

Force

Leading

Sea

Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Because I believe that abortion is murder, I also believe that force is justified in an attempt to stop it.

The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places.

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

Vera Rubin

Science

Force

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Force

Obedience

Right

We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

Barney Ross

Force

Islands

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.