Auberon Herbert Quotes

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

Bad, Sacrifice, Cannot

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.
Auberon Herbert

Career, Nation, Making

And 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.
Auberon Herbert

Others, Themselves, Rights

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.
Auberon Herbert

Person, Tax, Taken

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

God, Yourself, Human

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

Moral, Morality, Force

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

Done, Free, Moral

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.
Auberon Herbert

Men, Two, Possible

I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
Auberon Herbert

Time, Evil, Before

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.
Auberon Herbert

Government, Today, Ourselves

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.
Auberon Herbert

Nothing, Moral, Hands

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.
Auberon Herbert

Made, Small, Material

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

Work, Father, Through

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

Power, Him, Made

There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.
Auberon Herbert

Great, Men, Best

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

Men, Government, Cannot

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.
Auberon Herbert

Freedom, Him, Free

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: June 18, 1838

Died: November 5, 1906

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