“If there is one law for the Government and another for it's subjects, one for noble and another for commoner, one for rich and another for poor, the law does not guarantee liberty for all.”

— Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

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

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