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I advocate family planning, but I have never stood for forcible sterilisation.
Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.
All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.
We have freedom of religion in our country, yet we must guard against forcible conversions or through pecuniary enticements.
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.
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.
It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.
The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking - something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy, arouse their indignation, stimulate their imagination, convince their reason, awaken their conscience.
It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
