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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. ↗

— Heraclitus

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

— Auberon Herbert

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Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces? ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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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

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

— Auberon Herbert

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It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from. ↗

— Jenn Suhr

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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

#doctrine #numbers #others #over #persons

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

— Auberon Herbert

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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. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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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. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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