Coerce Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

— Dinesh D'Souza

But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or…

— James Madison

It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the…

— Alan Dershowitz

Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of…

— Robert Nozick

Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health…

— Thomas Jefferson

I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many means of…

— James Madison

The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude…

— Alexander Hamilton

The coercive power of government is always a beacon to those who want to dominate others -- summoning the worst dregs of society to…

— Harry Browne

State-building can not be imposed. Its foundation must be a shared understanding between those who govern, and those who give their consent to be…

— Hilary Benn

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

— Ludwig von Mises

“all of us need to be reminded that the federal government did not create the states, the states created the federal government. . .”

— Ronald Reagan

States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

— John Kitzhaber