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.

Auberon Herbert
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More Quotes By Auberon Herbert
  1. Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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.

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