Auberon Herbert

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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These are some quotes by English author Auberon Herbert Writer, who lived between June 18, 1838 and November 5, 1906.

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

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