“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.

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