If the child was helpless, was the grown up person, man or woman, in a much better position? - Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

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 just as much as his own.

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

The more a class is brought low, the greater its difficulty in rising again without assistance. For purposes of legislation the State has been exceedingly slow to accept this view.