We must — it is absolutely necessary — seek for law, or general leading principles, in politics. Until that is done there can be nothing rightly done; and the first great law that we have to seek out is the law that determines the right of men to exercise power over each other. Have men any right to this power? If they have it, do they possess it for all matters? If not for all matters, for what matters? And in this last case how are we to tell what these matters are?
Auberon Herbert, The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State (1885).
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