PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience. - Ambrose Bierce
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. - Gelett Burgess
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passions, grows by grappling with and subduing them. - James M. Barrie
One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful. - Sun Tzu