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, The New Toryism [1884]
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Victorian Web
- Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Herbert Spencer: Liberty and Unlimited Human Progress
by Jim Powell
Foundation for Economic Education
- Patriotism
by Herbert Spencer
Future of Freedom Foundation
- The Right to Ignore the State
by Herbert Spencer
Panarchy.org
- The Man versus the State
by Herbert Spencer
Library of Economics and Liberty
- Mencken Bibliography
Goucher College Library