Compulsion Quote by Henry Hazlitt

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

— Ludwig von Mises

Things don't always go according to plan. That's life and that's government.

— Grant Shapps

The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.

— Jerry Brown

Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan…

— Richard I. Winwood

I don't think like a central planner. We think in terms of a regime of freedom.

— Javier Milei

Planning involves considering how other people may use something.

— Paula Scher

Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose.

— Richard Lamm

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

If we're free to do what we want, why does government always have a plan for us?

— P. J. O'Rourke

Good planning is what the British people expects the Government to do.

— Gavin Williamson

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

— Anonymous

Plans must be simple and flexible…They must be made by the people who execute them.

— George S. Patton