Liberalism Is Trust Of The People Tempered

There Should Be A Sympathy With Freedom, A Desire To Give It Scope, Founded Not Upon Visionary Ideas, But Upon The Long Experience Of Many Generations Within The Shores Of This Happy Isle, That In Freedom You Lay The Firmest Foundations Both Of Loyalty And Order.

Mediocrity Is Now, As Formerly, Dangerous, Commonly Fatal, To The Poet; But Among Even The Successful Writers Of Prose, Those Who Rise Sensibly Above It Are The Very Rarest Exceptions.

I Have Known Ninety-five Of The World's Great Men In My Time, And Of These Eighty-seven Were Followers Of The Bible.

I Think That The Principle Of The Conservative Party Is Jealousy Of Liberty And Of The People, Only Qualified By Fear; But I Think The Principle Of The Liberal Party Is Trust In The People, Only Qualified By Prudence.

Is Not That State A Warning And A Judgment For Our Heavy Sins As A Nation?