27 Quotes by Auberon Herbert

The instinct of worship is still so strong upon us that, having nearly worn out our capacity for treating kings and such kind of persons as sacred, we are ready to invest a majority of our own selves with the same kind of reverence.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.