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Auberon Herbert

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

– Auberon Herbert

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.

– Auberon Herbert

Auberon Herbert

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

– Auberon Herbert

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.

– Auberon Herbert

Auberon Herbert

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

– Auberon Herbert

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?

– Auberon Herbert

Auberon Herbert

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

Auberon Herbert

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

Auberon Herbert

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.

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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.

– Auberon Herbert

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.

– Auberon Herbert

Auberon Herbert

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

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