James Anthony Froude Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: April 23, 1818 - October 20, 1894
Birthday: April 23
Death: October 20
English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.
source: James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.446
topic: Character, Thinking, Self, Westminster
