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“Some men are much better and wiser than others, but experience seems to show that hardly any man is so much better than or wiser than others that he can permanently stand the test of irresponsible power over them.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter IX, The Future Of Liberalism, p. 118.

Men

“The first condition of universal freedom, that is to say, is a measure of universal restraint. Without such restraint some men may be free but others will be unfree.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter II, The Elements of Liberalism, p. 17.

Men , Freedom , Universe

“Other great sources of wealth are found in financial and speculative operations, often of distinctly anti-social tendency and possible only through the defective organization of our economy.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter VIII, Economic Liberalism, p. 97.

Wealth

“Both logically and historically the first point of attack is arbitrary government, and the first liberty to be secured is the right to be dealt with in accordance with law. A man who has no legal rights against another, but stands entirely at his disposal, to be treated according to his caprice, is a slave to that other.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter II, The Elements of Liberalism, p. 16.

Law