Government Compulsion

Famous quotes containing the words government and/or compulsion:

“I feel a sincere wish indeed to see our government brought back to it’s republican principles, to see that kind of government firmly fixed, to which my whole life has been devoted. I hope we shall now see it so established, as that when I retire, it may be under full security that we are to continue free and happy.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

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