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