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

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

Auberon Herbert quotes: It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.

Auberon Herbert quotes: By what right do men exercise power over each other?

By what right do men exercise power over each other?

Auberon Herbert quotes: We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

Auberon Herbert quotes: There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.

There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.

Auberon Herbert quotes: I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.

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

Auberon Herbert quotes: 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.

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.

Auberon Herbert 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?

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?

Auberon Herbert 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.

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.

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

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