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
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