Steve Atacks (excellent) oration at Jeremy Thorpes funeral ends with this quote from 1923 - Liberalism is not dead. It has a message for today. It believes in Democracy. It believes in a Government of aristocracy, not of birth, of wealth, or of landed or other possessions, but an Aristocracy of intelligence, of energy, of character. Liberalism is not a compromise between two extremes of opinion. It is a solution of its own for the ills of humanity. It is not a half way house between Conservatism and Socialism. It is not a house at all. It is a broad road of travel along which may walk honest pilgrims through the confusion of life, not without glimpses, at the end, of the walls and towers of the Celestial City” libdemchild.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/the-eulogy-given-at-jeremy-thorpes.html
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 08:25:20 +0000