Bridges represent archetypal problems. They are artifacts that bring you across or around an obstacle. So they have an unbelievable force.
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.
I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
Gravity on Earth provides a force that keeps our bones and muscles working. In the microgravity of space, our bones and muscles are not taxed, so they begin to atrophy.
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
When Congress passed the Authorization for the Use of Military Force immediately after the 9/11 attacks, no one could have imagined this authorization would continue to be the basis for American wars that persist a decade and a half later.
More than a decade and half after 9/11, U.S. military actions in countries such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and several other Muslim nations are governed by the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) that was passed in the days immediately after 9/11.
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
Balk the enemy's power; force him to reveal himself.
Under Obama's intentional neglect, the most barbaric force in modern history - the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) - has taken form as a monstrous hoard and, like a hurricane, gathered power.
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.