Auberon Herbert Quotes

Auberon Herbert
English Writer
Born: Jun 18, 1838
Died: Nov 5, 1906
Man Men Politician Rights Will You
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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
Free Moral Seeing Compulsion How Intelligent Any Done Being Act Element
Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive. Auberon Herbert
Every Immoral Rate Taken Unwilling Oppressive Person Tax
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
Mend Example Sacrifice We Cannot Bad Civilization Force Effort Personal Influence Cannot Places Certainly Reason Strenuous
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 Will Own Others State Responsibilities Restore Through Voluntary Stepped Between Combinations Forced Course Contributions Duties Which Them Themselves Workmen Now Reject
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
Government Man Men One-Man Morally Representing Hold Cannot Many Million Millions
It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation. Auberon Herbert
Made Reliable Only Small He Material Offers Owner Taxation Really Who Profitable
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
Best Great Men System Has-Been Slowly Faculties Never Force Withered Been Sustained Which

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