Pericles Defines
* OUR constitution is named a democracy because it is in the hands not of the few but of the many. Our laws secure equal justice for all in their private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and honours talent in every branch of achievement, mot for any sectional reason but on grounds of excellence alone, And as we give free play to all in our public life, so we carry the same spirit into our daily relations with one another. Open and friendly in our private intercourse, in our public acts we keep strictly within the control of law. We acknowledge the restraint of reverence; we are obedient to whom.
soever is set in authority, and to the laws, more especially to those which offer protection to the oppressed and those unwritten ordinances whose transgression brings admitted shame. Our citizens attend both to public and private duties, and do not allow absorption in their own various affairs to interfere with their knowledge of the city’s. We differ from other states in regarding the man who holds aloof from public life not as quiet but as use-less."--(Pericles, quoted by Professor Leslie Lipson, 2YA, July 14.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 110, 1 August 1941, Page 5
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196Pericles Defines New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 110, 1 August 1941, Page 5
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