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Coercion Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one…
- Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting…
- Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And…
- I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken…
- The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion…
- What has been the effect of religious coercion? To make half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
- Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one…
More Coercion Quotes
- Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. — Theodor Adorno
- The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes… — Noam Chomsky
- Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be… — James A. Baldwin
- The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations. — Anthony Gregory
- History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting… — Ludwig von Mises
- Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have… — Thomas Jefferson
- Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was… — Thomas Jefferson
- Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as… — Thomas Jefferson
- Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment… — Friedrich August von Hayek
- What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus… — Ayn Rand
- Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,… — Milton Friedman
- Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion… — Milton Friedman