“The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason which the employment of coercion necessarily destroys. The liberal has faith in the individual – faith that he can be persuaded by rational means to beliefs compatible with social good.”
Harold Edmund Stearns“The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason which the employment of coercion necessarily destroys. The liberal has faith in the individual – faith that he can be persuaded by rational means to beliefs compatible with social good.”
Harold Edmund Stearns, Liberalism in America: Its Origin, Its Temporary Collapse, Its Future“We are homeless enough in this world under the best of circumstances without going to any special effort to test our capacity to be more so.”
Harold Edmund Stearns, The confessions of a Harvard man : the street I know revisited : a journey through literary Bohemia, Paris & New York in the 20s & 30s