Auberon Herbert Quotes

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• The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to…
• The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being…
• Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.
• If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to…
• And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and…
• How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb…
• Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives…
• 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…
• If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot…
• 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 of men, cannot do.
• It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.
• There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.
• 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 god,…
• 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.
• If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.
• 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…

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