The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

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• Auberon Herbert:

  The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him ex

• Auberon Herbert:

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

• Auberon Herbert:

  If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be t

• Auberon Herbert:

  And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they ta

• Auberon Herbert:

  How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the r

• Auberon Herbert:

  Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality

• Auberon Herbert:

  How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the

• Auberon Herbert:

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

• Auberon Herbert:

  If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, m

• Auberon Herbert:

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