“Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.” GovernmentEvilIndividualFreedomLibertyDemocracySocietySlaveryLibertarianSocialismCommunismAnarchyIndividualismCoercionCollectivismStatismVoluntaryismNon Aggression PrincipleNapTotalitarianFree MarketsMob RuleIdiocracy Author:Auberon Herbert
“Private property and free trade stand on exactly the same footing, both being essential and indivisible parts of liberty, both depending upon rights, which no body of men, whether called governments or anything else, can justly take from the individual.” GovernmentEvilPoliticsFreedomLibertyViolenceLibertarianIndividualismTaxationFree MarketTheftCoercionStatismVoluntaryismLaissez FaireNon Aggression Principle Author:Auberon Herbert
“To live in a state of liberty is not to live apart from law. It is, on the contrary, to live under the highest law, the only law that can really profit a man, the law which is consciously and deliberately imposed by himself on himself.” FreedomLibertySocietyMoralityEthicsUniversalTradeLibertarianAnarchyMoralsFreeFree MarketVoluntaryismNon Aggression PrincipleAncapCommon LawFirst Principles Author:Auberon Herbert
“It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our hands.” HappinessChoicesIndividualFreedomLibertyProgressLibertarianFree WillAnarchyIndividualismCoercionStatismVoluntaryismNon Aggression Principle Author:Auberon Herbert
“I found most of my friends quite content to be used as tax-material, even though the sums of money taken from them were employed against their own beliefs and interests. They had lived so long under the system of using others, and then in their turn being used by them, that they were like hypnotized subjects, and looked on this subjecting and using of each other as a part of the necessary and even Providential order of things. The great machine had taken possession of their souls.” GovernmentPoliticsIndividualFreedomLibertySocietySlaveryLibertarianAnarchyIndividualismTaxationFree MarketCoercionCattleStatismVoluntaryismLaissez FaireTax Author:Auberon Herbert
“Why should you desire to compel others; why should you seek to have power— that evil, bitter, mocking thing, which has been from of old, as it is today, the sorrow and curse of the world—over your fellow-men and fellow-women? Why should you desire to take from any man or woman their own will and intelligence, their free choice, their own self-guidance, their inalienable rights over themselves; why should you desire to make of them mere tools and instruments for your own advantage and interest; why should you desire to compel them to serve and follow your opinions instead of their own; why should you deny in them the soul—that suffers so deeply from all constraint—and treat them as a sheet of blank paper upon which you may write your own will and desires, of whatever kind they may happen to be? Who gave you the right, from where do you pretend to have received it, to degrade other men and women from their own true rank as human beings, taking from them their will, their conscience, and intelligence—in a word, all the best and highest part of their nature—turning them into mere empty worthless shells, mere shadows of the true man and women, mere counters in the game you are mad enough to play, and just because you are more numerous or stronger than they, to treat them as if they belonged not to themselves, but to you? Can you believe that good will ever come by morally and spiritually degrading your fellow-men? What happy and safe and permanent form of society can you hope to build on this pitiful plan of subjecting others, or being yourselves subjected by them?” GovernmentPoliticsPeaceFreedomLibertyDemocracyLibertarianCoercionNatural LawStatismVoluntaryismIndividual RightsLaissez FaireNatural RightsNon Aggression PrincipleMinarchist Author:Auberon Herbert