Herbert Spencer Quotes

If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?

Herbert Spencer

• Freedom
• Liberty
• Slave
• Surrender
• Despotism

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  Herbert Spencer
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Slave