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