Patrick Peterson

“placing unlimited power—as we do now—in the hands of the state means degrading men from their true rank, the narrowing of their intelligence, the encouragement of intolerance and contempt for each other, and therefore the encouragement of sullen, bitter strife, the tricks of the clever tongue, practiced on both the poor and rich crowd, and the evil arts of flattery and self-abasement in order to conciliate votes and possess power, the excessive and dangerous power of a very able press, which keeps parties together, and too often thinks for most of us, the repression of all those healthy individual differences that make the life and vigor of a nation,”
― Auberon Herbert, Auberon Herbert: Selected Writings from a Reluctant Anarchist

“On what foundation does Mr. Spencer place political liberty?” asked Angus. “He founds it on the right of every man to use the faculties he possesses.”
― Auberon Herbert, Auberon Herbert: Selected Writings from a Reluctant Anarchist

“is not laissez-faire that has failed. That would be an ill day for men. “What has failed is the courage to see what is true and to speak it to the people, to point toward the true remedies away from the sham remedies.”
― Auberon Herbert, Auberon Herbert: Selected Writings from a Reluctant Anarchist

“The master-vice of Socialism—the subjection of one man to the views of another—”
― Auberon Herbert, Auberon Herbert: Selected Writings from a Reluctant Anarchist