“I may remark in passing that when people say that government rests on force they give an admirable instance of the foggy and muddled cynicism of modernity. Government does not rest on force. Government is force; it rests on consent or a conception of justice.” -
G. K. Chesterton[Certainly, not all force is governmental. But, inherent in the authority to enact law is the authority to administer punishment for violations. If those punishments are capricious and arbitrary rather than even-handed and impartial rebellion is imminent.]
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