Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable procures success to the weak and esteem to all.

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Too often older women are seen as victims but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life and children and friends and family.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.