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Brief about Auberon Herbert: By info that we know Auberon Herbert was born at 1970-01-01. And also Auberon Herbert is English Writer.
Some Auberon Herbert's quotes. Goto "Auberon Herbert's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Bad, Cannot, SacrificeThe 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.
Tags: Career, Making, NationEvery tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.
Tags: Immoral, Taken, TaxAnd what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.
Tags: Others, Rights, ThemselvesDeny 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.
Tags: God, Human, YourselfHow 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?
Tags: Done, Free, MoralIf you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.
Tags: Hands, Moral, TieIt is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.
Tags: Material, Small, TaxationThere never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.
Tags: Best, Great, MenWe hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.
Tags: Cannot, Government, MenYou will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.
Tags: Free, Freedom, HimDo 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?
Tags: Force, Moral, MoralityHow, 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.
Tags: Men, Possible, ThreeIf 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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