You can do it with threats of coercion, sticks, you can do it with payments,

The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion.

You can do it with threats of coercion, sticks, you can do it with payments, carrots, or you can do it by getting others to want what you want.

Now in the old days, conducting, music making, was less about trust and more, frankly, about coercion.

Avoiding coercion, premature elections, and hypocritical rhetoric does not rule out a patient policy of economic assistance, quiet diplomacy, and multilateral efforts to support the development of civil society, the rule of law, and support for well managed elections.

Erhard's vision of a social market economy was a third way, an alternative to both large scale state intervention and the risks of laissez faire liberalism. Germany's historical experience had demonstrated that freedom without order led to chaos, and order without freedom resulted in coercion and the renunciation of democracy.