DEFENDER OF LIBERTY.
We British have fallen too much into the. habit of thinking of liberty as if it were something incidentally attached to particular forms of government, writes Air J. A. Spender in the “Sunday Times.” It is, in fact, the postulate on. which all, so far as they profess to seek the well-being of the governed, are founded, and on which the whole process that we call civilisation has gone forward. “To renounce liberty,” said a great Frenchman, “is to renounce being a man, to surrender the. rights of humanity and even its duties.” It has fallen to us British to defend this immemorial cause against the upstart tyrants who think it. to he a “rotting corpse.” We shall undeceive them.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 302, 28 September 1940, Page 4
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