Coercion Quote by Ludwig von Mises

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with…

— Ludwig von Mises

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

— Ludwig von Mises

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

— Ludwig von Mises

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.

— John Basil Barnhill

A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine…

— Oliver Ellsworth

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

— Ludwig von Mises

“Freedom is the opposite of necessity.”

— Immanuel Kant

Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.

— Lord Acton

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented…

— W. H. Auden

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All government, of course, is against liberty.

— H. L. Mencken