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Letter "A" » Auberon Herbert Quotes
«Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.»
Author: Auberon Herbert
«If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.»
Author: Auberon Herbert
«The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.»
Author: Auberon Herbert
«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?»
Author: Auberon Herbert
«There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.»
Author: Auberon Herbert
«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 please and satisfy the other part of the nation.»
Author: Auberon Herbert
«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 assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.»
Author: Auberon Herbert
«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 do it by force.»
Author: Auberon Herbert
«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 the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Auberon Herbert
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