“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
“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