You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act. — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being? — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves,… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do. — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder. — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive. — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
