The Tendency Of All Strong Governments Has Always Been To Suppress
Liberty, Partly In Order To Ease The Processes Of Rule, Partly From
Sheer Disbelief In Innovation.
The tendency of all strong Governments has always been to suppress
liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from
sheer disbelief in innovation.
-- J. A. Hobson (1858-1940)
We have not tried to suppress true, legitimate liberty on the contrary,
we have tried to preserve it. We are for liberty, but liberty with
order, the kind of liberty which will not threaten the basic principles
of our nation, nor threaten its faith and unity....