Phrase by 'Auberon Herbert'

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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.

Author: Auberon Herbert - English Writer
  Today , Us , Government , Practice


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.

Author: Auberon Herbert - English Writer
  You , Man , Freedom , Free


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.

Author: Auberon Herbert - English Writer
  Career , Want , Politician , Nation


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.

Author: Auberon Herbert - English Writer
  Hands , Enough , Power , Purpose


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

Author: Auberon Herbert - English Writer
  Every , Person , Tax , Taken


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.

Author: Auberon Herbert - English Writer
  Others , Some , Numbers , Rights


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.

Author: Auberon Herbert - English Writer
  Never , Three , Way , Men


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?

Author: Auberon Herbert - English Writer
  Moral , You , See , Morality


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?

Author: Auberon Herbert - English Writer
  Moral , Being , Free , Done


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

Author: Auberon Herbert - English Writer
  You , Nothing , Man , Hands


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