Those who took the road to democracy to be the road to freedom mistook temporary means for an ultimate end.
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‘A Historical Sketch of Liberty and Equality as Ideals of English Political Philosophy from the Time of Hobbes to the Time of Coleridge’ (1875), in H. A. L. Fisher (ed.), The Collected Papers of Frederic William Maitland, Downing Professor of the Laws of England: Volume I (1911), p. 84