There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered. -Auberon Herbert

 

There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.


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

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There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.

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How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.

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If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

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If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

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