Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

"What we possess has its intrinsic value, but how we came to possess it is also an important question."

"Compulsion may be necessary for the purposes of external order, but it adds nothing to the inward life that is the true being of a man."

"He is a citizen of the world in that he represents his nation, which is a member of the community of the world."

"The fancied clearness of Utopian vision is illusory, because its objects are artificial ideas and not living facts."

"At all times men have lived in societies, and ties of kinship and of simple neighbourhood underlie every form of social organization."

"The Liberal does not meet opinions which he conceives to be false with toleration, as though they did not matter. He meets them with justice, and exacts for them a fair hearing as though they mattered…"

"Both logically and historically the first point of attack is arbitrary government, and the first liberty to be secured is the right to be dealt with in accordance with law. A man who has no legal righ…"

"There is no line drawn beyond which human obligations cease. There is no gulf across which the voice of human suffering cannot be heard, beyond which massacre and torture cease to be execrable. Simply…"