Has Individual Liberty Gone?
Sir, —The following paragraph, taken from a quotation on page 161 of “The New Despotism” (Lord Hewart of Bury), seems interesting:—
“To those who were convinced that the best Government was that which governed least, it was alarming to contemplate the increasing scope of legislative interference in those matters which in the past had been considered the private affairs of the citizen. Legislative interference was sometimes supported by attractive pretexts, preceded by certain harmless intrusions, and, if they were tolerated and ignored, the attack would become more aggressive, the advance more permanent, and more rapid, and individual liberty and corporate activities would find themselves hampered by unnecessary restraint. The insatiable appetite to control other men’s affairs was often evinced by those whose capacity to manage their own affairs was in inverse proportion to their desires.” —I am, etc., T.J.M.A. March 18.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 149, 20 March 1939, Page 11
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145Has Individual Liberty Gone? Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 149, 20 March 1939, Page 11
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