1.
The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.
Edward Gibbon
2.
Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.
Marlene Dietrich
3.
Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.
Robert Breault
4.
In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
Charles Caleb Colton
6.
All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.
Hannah More
7.
A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that cannot be expressed lucidly in 200 words.
Eric Hoffer
8.
Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.
Sophocles
10.
The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.
Alexander Hamilton
11.
Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.
Winston Churchill
12.
It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
Georg C. Lichtenberg