"Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an……" — Auberon Herbert
"Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive."
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17 Quotes by Auberon Herbert
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- The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want…
- The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist…
- If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice…
- And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons…
- How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the…
- Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and…
- How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the…
- If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places…
- I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
- We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions…
- It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for…
- There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have…
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