Auberon Herbert Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

11 Famous Quotes by Auberon Herbert
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“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. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. 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.”
Politics / government Quotes
“Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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?”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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