Voluntary Compliance Quotes

No man ruleth safely but that he is willingly ruled.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

I think the industry can probably self-correct without regulation, but I don't believe an individual outlet can regulate itself.

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Power works best when it is indirect - never coercing people; instead, getting them to voluntarily align with your interests.

The United States has a system of taxation by confession

Reform has to emanate from the inside. It has to be compatible with your customs. … One cannot impose one’s will on the majority of the people as much as one wants to do so.

Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.

A government can punish specific acts of spoliation; but no government can conscript cooperation.

The government cannot enforce its mountain of laws and regulations without voluntary compliance.

Laws are only observed with the consent of the individuals concerned and a moral change still depends on the individual and not on the passage of any law.

The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.

Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.

Our tax system is based on individual self-assessment and voluntary compliance

A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation [...] He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribed in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection.

Tell me if ever in history there was a government which was based exclusively upon the consent of the people, and which was ready to dispense altogether with the use of force. There has never been and never will be such a government.

What you can't enforce, do not command.

If you don't pay your taxes and you don't answer the warrant and you don't go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up. I want everything the government does to be done, I just want it to be done voluntarily.

All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.

I shall on all subjects have a policy to recommend, but none to enforce against the will of the people.

Obeying from love is better than to obey from fear.