Government Compulsion

Famous quotes containing the words government and/or compulsion:

“The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.”
—John Caldwell Calhoun (1782–1850)

“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)