Government Compulsion

Famous quotes containing the words government and/or compulsion:

“I have no doubt that soldiers well drilled are, as a class, peculiarly destitute of originality and independence.... It is impossible to give the soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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