“I saw the charter as an expression of my long-held view that the subject of law must be the individual human being; the law must permit the individual to fulfil himself or herself to the utmost.”

Part 4, 1979 - 1984 "Welcome to the 1980's", p. 322
Memoirs (1993)

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