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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.