If The Human Intellect Functions, It Is

[t]he Mass-man Sees In The State An Anonymous Power, And Feeling Himself, Like It, Anonymous, He Believes That The State Is Something Of His Own. Suppose That In The Public Life Of A Country Some Difficulty, Conflict, Or Problem Presents Itself, The Mass-man Will Tend To Demand That The State Intervene Immediately And Undertake A Solution Directly With Its Immense And Unassailable Resources. This Is The Gravest Danger That To-day Threatens Civilisation: State Intervention; The Absorption Of All Spontaneous Social Effort By The State.

I Am I Plus My Surroundings; And If I Do Not Preserve The Latter, I Do Not Preserve Myself.

There Are People Who So Arrange Their Lives That They Feed Themselves Only On Side Dishes.

Liberalism -- It Is Well To Recall This Today -- Is The Supreme Form Of Generosity; It Is The Right Which The Majority Concedes To Minorities And Hence It Is The Noblest Cry That Has Ever Resounded In This Planet. It Announces The Determination To Share Existence With The Enemy; More Than That, With An Enemy Which Is Weak.

Liberalism Is That Principle Of Political Rights, According To Which The Public Authority, In Spite Of Being All-powerful, Limits Itself And Attempts, Even At Ist Own Expense, To Leave Room In The State Over Which It Rules For Those To Live Who Neither Think Nor Feel As It Does, That Is To Say As Do The Stronger, The Majority.