Auberon Herbert Quotes

#1. 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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#2. Private property and free trade stand on exactly the same footing, both being essential and indivisible parts of liberty, both depending upon rights, which no body of men, whether called governments or anything else, can justly take from the individual.

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#3. 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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#4. Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#5. 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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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. Langdon knew she was right and reluctantly made his way around the balcony, hugging the wall as he went.

Dan Brown

#9. Farther the government must not go. It must not attempt any service of any kind for the people, from the mere mechanism of carrying their letters to that most arrogant and ill-conceived of universal schemes, the education of their children.

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#10. People like that? People who don't want to be found? They're usually really good at staying lost.

Hannah Harrington

#11. To live in a state of liberty is not to live apart from law. It is, on the contrary, to live under the highest law, the only law that can really profit a man, the law which is consciously and deliberately imposed by himself on himself.

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#12. All things can be forgiven if we can progress.

Cat Stevens

#13. 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?

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#14. It is only you, treading in the blessed path of peace and freedom, who can bring about the true regeneration of society, and with it the true happiness of your own lives.

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#15. Not too many people know how life could be best used, it is a millennial dilemma, that has troubled souls of men for many, many generations.

Sunday Adelaja

#16. Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.

L. Ron Hubbard

#17. By what right do men exercise power over each other?

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#18. 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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#19. I'm a Brooklyn guy onstage, and I try to really feed my fans with the kind of material they expect from me.

Andrew Dice Clay

#20. For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule. 6.

Anonymous

#21. At a guess I see that you may indeed be he: the light silver dew brings to clothe in loveliness a twilight beauty flower.

Murasaki Shikibu

#22. Justice requires that you should not place the burdens of one man on the shoulders of another man, even though he is better able to bear them. In plainer words, that you should not make one set of men pay for what is used by another set of men.

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#23. It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our hands.

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#24. 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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#25. I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.

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#26. 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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#27. It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

Anthony Powell

#28. 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.

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#29. 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.

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

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

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#33. 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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#34. 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.

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#35. 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?

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#36. Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign.

B.V. Lawson