The modern state is the distinctive product of a unique civilization. But it is a product which is still in the making, and a part of the process is … - Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

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 as a patriot, again, a man should recognize that a nation may become great not merely by painting the map red, or extending her commerce beyond all precedent, but also as the champion of justice, the succourer of the oppressed, the established home of freedom.

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.

Some men are much better and wiser than others, but experience seems to show that hardly any man is so much better than or wiser than others that he can permanently stand the test of irresponsible power over them.