“If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law – if that is not what we have always cried out against in Fascist states – then what is it?… If we are to survive as a free democracy, then we must be prepared, in principle, to concede to our enemies – even those who do not subscribe to our views – as much constitutional rights as you concede yourself.”
~ Opposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Legislative Assembly Debates, Sept 21, 1955 [thanks Reynold Godwin Pereira for posting this!]
~ Opposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Legislative Assembly Debates, Sept 21, 1955 [thanks Reynold Godwin Pereira for posting this!]