17 ordspråk av Auberon Herbert
Auberon Herbert
 I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time. |
| It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation. |
| We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive. |
| If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder. |
| 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? |
| There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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