Diffusion Quote by Lord Hailsham Download Open image “Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.” — Lord Hailsham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diffusion Freedom Liberty Political Politics
Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or the barricades, but rather evolves… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Democratic and aristocratic states are not in their own nature free. Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and even in… — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls and thoughts…… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent… — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of… — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of… — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a lesser extent,… — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to… — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
In the late 60s, 70s and possibly early 80s, social scientists were interested in researching the diffusion of innovation and studying the link between… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public… — Matt Blunt Copy Share Image
When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
