
No. 3
1770s, Novanglus essays (1774–1775)
As quoted in "The Economist" (8 October 2011), p. 67
No. 3
1770s, Novanglus essays (1774–1775)
“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
“Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.”
As quoted in The Word Book Complete Word Power Library, Volume 1 (1981), p. 324
His judgement in another case on the issue of Fundamental Rights.
Full Court Reference in Memory of The Late Justice M. Hidayatullah
Simple Truths message to Congress http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12058.htm (April 29, 1938). http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=15637 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,759590,00.html
1930s
Context: Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any other controlling private power.
The second truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if its business system does not provide employment and produce and distribute goods in such a way as to sustain an acceptable standard of living. Both lessons hit home. Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.
The Rights of the Colonists (1772)