Force Quote by Emma Goldman

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself,…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Man cannot be exempted from his divinely-imposed obligations toward civil society, and the representatives of authority have the right to coerce him when he…

— Pope Pius XI

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

— William Feather

Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate…

— Albert Gallatin

Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves…

— Baruch Spinoza

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his…

— John Locke

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

— Ruth Benedict

Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.

— Benvenuto Cellini

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent course, whether…

— Roger Williams

The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master.

— Benvenuto Cellini

No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which are promulgated…

— Marquis de Lafayette