Quote #35

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

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  1. The Labour movement is but the tail of the great Liberal lion.
  2. He has one gift most dangerous to a spectator, a vast command of a kind of language, grave and majestic, but of vague and uncertain import.
  3. Justice delayed is justice denied.
  4. Ah, Oxford on the surface, but Liverpool below.
  5. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.
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