All Auberon Herbert Quotes
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
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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.
Auberon Herbert
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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.
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I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
Auberon Herbert
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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.
Auberon Herbert
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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
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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, Force.
Auberon Herbert
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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.
Auberon Herbert
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It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.
Auberon Herbert
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If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.
Auberon Herbert
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Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?
Auberon Herbert
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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.
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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 please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
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Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.
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There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.
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