The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.
A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.
Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.
Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.
