“To make laws for the regulation of trade,” he said in 1836, “is as wise as it would be to legislate about water finding a level or matter exercising its centripetal force.” — 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
