A GREAT TRADITION
"We British are the heirs of a great tradition.” said Mr Anthony Eden, speaking at the annual banquet of the Royal Society of St. George. “ Whether we show it or not, We are ■ immensely proud of that tradition, and we are determined to be worthy of it. What is it that, above all else. England has sought to bequeath to succeeding centuries? Not her armies, fleets and aeroplanes, not her victories on land or sea or in the air. not even her commercial experience or her industrial skill, but the art of self-government by a free people. It is our conception that, while a well-ordered State must seek the greatest good of the greatest number, it protects the right® and liberties of majority and minority alike; it must guarantee to the humblest of its citizens, as to the greatest* full individual liberty and undoubted equality before the law. So long as ah Englishman obeys his country’s laws it is the duty, of government to ensure for him freedom ,to. think, freedom to. worship, freedom to speak, freedom to act as he will.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23529, 18 June 1938, Page 16
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185A GREAT TRADITION Otago Daily Times, Issue 23529, 18 June 1938, Page 16
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