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Quotes from Liberalism — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

1864–1929 England

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24 quotes

If the child was helpless, was the grown up person, man or woman, in a much better position?

Liberalism (1911)

Government must keep the ring, and leave it for individuals to play the game.

Liberalism (1911)

At all times men have lived in societies, and ties of kinship and of simple neighbourhood underlie every form of social organization.

Liberalism (1911)

He is a citizen of the world in that he represents his nation, which is a member of the community of the world.

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True consent is free consent, and full freedom of consent implies equality on the part of both parties to bargain.

Liberalism (1911)

To be effective men must act together, and to act together they must have a common understanding and a common object.

Liberalism (1911)

We need less of the fanatics of sectarianism and more of the unifying mind.

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To move towards harmony is the persistent impulse of the rational being, even if the goal lies always beyond the reach of accomplished effort.

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In modern industry there is very little that the individual can do by his unaided efforts.

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Great changes are not caused by ideas alone; but they are not effected without ideas.

Liberalism (1911)

The fancied clearness of Utopian vision is illusory, because its objects are artificial ideas and not living facts.

Liberalism (1911)

Does scope for individual development, for example, consort with idea of equality?

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The more the individual receives free scope for the play of his faculties, the more rapidly will society as a whole advance.

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The foundation of liberty is the idea of growth.

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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.

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Compulsion may be necessary for the purposes of external order, but it adds nothing to the inward life that is the true being of a man.

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What we possess has its intrinsic value, but how we came to possess it is also an important question.

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The more a class is brought low, the greater its difficulty in rising again without assistance. For purposes of legislation the State has been exceedingly slow to accept this view.

Liberalism (1911)

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.

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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.

Liberalism (1911)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.