Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Quote

Where property is in question I am guilty…of erecting individual liberty as an idol, and of resenting all attempts to destroy or fetter it; but when you pass from liberty to life, in no well-governed State, in no State governed according to the principles of common humanity, are the claims of mere liberty allowed to endanger the lives of the citizens.

in the House of Lords, 29 July 1897