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

~Auberon Herbert

Topics: Every Immoral Oppressive Person Rate Taken Tax Unwilling

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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.

~Auberon Herbert

Topics: Career Consists Does Mainly Making Nation Order Other Part Please Politician Satisfy Want

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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

Topics: Being Ends Enough Exist Force Get Hands He Him His Idea Made Opposed Politician Power Purpose Rather Ruling Serve Stated Them Those Who

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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.

~Auberon Herbert

Topics: Assume Century Dinners Government Had Half Impossibility Orator Our Ourselves Practice Provided Providing Today Us Would

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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

Topics: Doctrine Numbers Others Over Persons Philosophical Rights Some Sort Take Themselves Unlimited Vest

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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.

~Auberon Herbert

Topics: Absorb Exceed Existed Had How Make Men Never Possible Rights Them Then Three Two Way

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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

Topics: Abstract Directly Drives Existence First Force Forces Mental Moral Morality Opposed Out Physical Practically Secondly See 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

Topics: Act Any Being Compulsion Done Element Free How Intelligent Moral Seeing

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

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Topics: About Committing Hands His Man Moral Nothing Tie You

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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

Topics: Bad Cannot Certainly Civilization Effort Example Force Influence Mend Personal Places Reason Sacrifice Strenuous We Cannot

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: June 18th, 1838

Died: November 5th, 1906

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