41st Conservative Political Action Conference ...Next > |
March 8, 2014--Dan Hannan,
member of European Parliament from the United Kingdom since 1999, and a
member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, delivered
an interesting speech on freedom. "We can so easily fall into the
error of assuming that freedom and free contracts, that regular
elections and uncensored newspapers, that jury trials and habeas corpus
and equality between men and women, that these things are somehow the
natural condition of an advanced society. That every country will
get there when it becomes educated enough and wealthy enough. But
history tells a very different story. Those precepts were
overwhelmingly developed in the language in which you're listening to
these words..."
Hannan recently
authored a book, "Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples
Made the Modern World." |
<
Previous | Next > |