"The course that will restore to the workmen……" — Auberon Herbert
"The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations."
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Auberon Herbert
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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…
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The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist…
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Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.
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If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice…
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And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons…
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How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the…
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Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and…
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How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the…
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If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places…
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I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
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We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions…
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It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for…
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