“Absolute power could, as its defenders argued, be enlightened, beneficial, and benign. To liberals that was not enough. Absolute power could also change its mind when it wanted. It could turn harmful and malign. Intentions changed. Capacities lasted. Power was… — Edmund Fawcett Copy Share Image
“First, human character was varied. Second, pleasure lay less in feeling things than in doing things, that is in pursuits and activities. Last, certain… — Edmund Fawcett Copy Share Image
“Whatever the liberal mood, the task of containing and utilizing conflict was never over, just as the task was never over of resisting power.… — Edmund Fawcett Copy Share Image
“Looked at from the point of view of citizens, liberalism is a practice of politics for people who will not be bossed about or… — Edmund Fawcett Copy Share Image
“But people were not ideal, and politics had to work with people as they were.” — Edmund Fawcett Copy Share Image
“Modern liberty in contrast was protection from unwanted interference by state or society.” — Edmund Fawcett Copy Share Image
“Absolute power could, as its defenders argued, be enlightened, beneficial, and benign. To liberals that was not enough. Absolute power could also change its… — Edmund Fawcett Copy Share Image
“leader of the Baden liberals, Carl von Rotteck, had cried “I prefer freedom without unity to unity without freedom.” — Edmund Fawcett Copy Share Image
“To make laws for the regulation of trade,” he said in 1836, “is as wise as it would be to legislate about water finding… — Edmund Fawcett Copy Share Image
“The same man,” Roosevelt said, “who tells us that he does not want to see the government interfere with business . . . is the first to… — Edmund Fawcett Copy Share Image
“Good governance depends on the balance of forces.” In avoiding the domination of one power, he was echoing Madison and Guizot.” — Edmund Fawcett Copy Share Image
