THE BEST PROTECTION.
"Men, not walls, are our proteetion, what we cail the State is not an abstraction but the sum of the individuals that compose it; : their health, vigour and charaeter make the virtues of the State, their feebleness or lack of balance make its vices. The totalitarian State distorts this truth by denying the right of the individual and making bim exist solely for the State. "Our democratic prinoiple thinks of well-being, physical and mental, as a duty owing hy the individual not to the State but to ■himself. He will best serve the State hy realising the best that is in himself in a happy balance .of mind and body, in whieh duty is also happiness, liberty makes its own diseipline and life becpmes an active pleasur* insbead^Qf & paf Slip,day SpfptatQf^ " " 1 ri'--
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 100, 14 May 1937, Page 4
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136THE BEST PROTECTION. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 100, 14 May 1937, Page 4
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