Force/descriptions

Famous quotes containing the words force and/or descriptions:

“While I shall not vote for the prohibition amendment, I would like to see a good, wholesome expression of temperance sentiment.... Personally I do not resort to force—not even the force of law—to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example—of fashion.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)