Present party designations have become empty of all contents...Vastly extended State expenditure, vastly increased demands from the taxpayer who has … - John Morley

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Present party designations have become empty of all contents...Vastly extended State expenditure, vastly increased demands from the taxpayer who has to provide the money, social reform regardless of expense, cash exacted from the taxpayer already at his wits' end—when were the problems of plus and minus more desperate? How are we to measure the use and abuse of industrial organization? Powerful orators find "Liberty" the true keyword, but the I remember hearing from a learned student that of "liberty" he knew well over two hundred definitions. Can we be sure that the "haves" and the "have-nots" will agree in their selection of the right one? We can only trust to the growth of responsibility; we may look to circumstances and events to teach their lesson.

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About John Morley

The Right Honorable John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, OM PC (24 December 1838 – 23 September 1923) was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor.

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Native Name: John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
Alternative Names: John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley Viscount Morley of Blackburn John, Viscount Morley of Blackburn Morley Morley, John, Viscount Morley of Blackburn John Morley, first Viscount Morley of Blackburn Baron Morley of Blackburn Viscount Morley Lord Morley of Blackburn Morley, John
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According to my observation, the change in my own generation is different. They have ceased either to trust or to distrust liberty, and have come to the mind that it matters little either way. Men are disenchanted. They have got what they wanted in the days of their youth, yet what of it, they ask?

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