The case we set up was that the wife had been improperly influenced by her husband in making it, and that her mind was coerced into doing what she did not intend to do, and so we sought to set aside the will on that ground.

The majority, in respect to religion and civilization, are like unwilling school-boys who need to be coerced for their own benefit, to be kept to their work till they learn (if they ever do) to like it, and to need no more coercion.

"What an idea! Are children ever coerced in these days?

It can be commended only when men are worse than governments; when they are to be coerced like wild beasts, or lunatics, or scoundrels.

Let no community be coerced under British rule that wants to be self-governing.

It is plain that either Ireland should be left free to legislate for herself, which would virtually be the dismemberment of the empire; or should receive equal privileges with the English; or should be coerced with an iron hand, which would depopulate the country.