legal coercion Quotes

Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.

The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of their own misbehavior.

Silence coerced by law—the argument of force in its worst form.

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.

The next week she withheld my paycheck until I signed a document (drafted by David) in which I promised not to marry Connor. Ever. I signed the document, took the check, and had David draft another document forbidding all Spellmans to practice any form of blackmail. David tried to explain to me that a contract in which you promise not to break the law is ultimately redundant, but I didn't care.

The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.