If the American people have decided one thing, it is that they will not be taken care of, nor coercively ruled, by their better element, or minorities."
"The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him"
Paul Leicester Ford
As no water can rise higher than its spring, no establishment can have more authority than it derives from its principle; and the power of the government can with no appearance of reason go further coercively than to bind and hold down those who have once consented to their opinions.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
Were he and his wife really not coercively interesting on that Boston night of Macbeth in particular, hadn't their art a distinction that triumphed over battered age and sorry harshness, or was I but too easily beguiled by the old association?
"A Small Boy and Others"
Henry James