No body of civil servants, however liberal-minded they may be, ought to be free both to make the law and to devise the procedure by which its legality may be tested; and that, be it remembered, without a power of appeal from their decision.
This quote highlights the risks of civil servants having unchecked power over law-making and legality.
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From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.
The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.
There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.
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