Auberon Herbert
Auberon Herbert
Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbertwas a writer, theorist, philosopher, and 19th century individualist. A member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, Herbert was a son of the 3rd Earl of Carnarvon. He was Member of Parliament for the two member constituency of Nottingham between 1870–1874...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 June 1838
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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.
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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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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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Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.
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We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.
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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.
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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.
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It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.
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I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
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If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.
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There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.
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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.