Freedom Quote by Edmund Fawcett

“Modern liberty in contrast was protection from unwanted interference by state or society.” quote by Edmund Fawcett — Download Open image

““Modern liberty in contrast was protection from unwanted interference by state or society.””

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“First, human character was varied. Second, pleasure lay less in feeling things than in doing things, that is in pursuits and activities. Last, certain…

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“Whatever the liberal mood, the task of containing and utilizing conflict was never over, just as the task was never over of resisting power.…

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“Looked at from the point of view of citizens, liberalism is a practice of politics for people who will not be bossed about or…

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“But people were not ideal, and politics had to work with people as they were.”

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“Absolute power could, as its defenders argued, be enlightened, beneficial, and benign. To liberals that was not enough. Absolute power could also change its…

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“leader of the Baden liberals, Carl von Rotteck, had cried “I prefer freedom without unity to unity without freedom.”

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“To make laws for the regulation of trade,” he said in 1836, “is as wise as it would be to legislate about water finding…

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“The same man,” Roosevelt said, “who tells us that he does not want to see the government interfere with business . . . is the first to…

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“Good governance depends on the balance of forces.” In avoiding the domination of one power, he was echoing Madison and Guizot.”

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“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived, had no moral ground on which to stand. They had the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law—in a word, power. But it was a criminal power, to be feared but not respected, and to be…

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