Status Updates From Atlas Shrugged

"...the Ferris-Lawson-Meigs faction - that's been after me for over a year to adopt stronger measures. A tougher policy...to resort to terror. Introduce the death penalty for civilian crimes, for critics, dissenters and the like. Their argument is that since people won't co-operate, won't act for the public interest voluntarily, we've got to force them to. Nothing will make our system work...but terror" (994).