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Daily Archives: May 18, 2018

The democracy dividend: A free press

May 18, 2018

Democracy brings with it its own dividends. One of them is press freedom. Freed from the shackles of government control, …

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We will “be forever a sovereign democratic and independent state founded upon the principles of liberty and justice and ever seeking the welfare and happiness of its people and the maintenance of a just peace among all nations.” – Tunku Abdul Rahman’s Proclamation of Independence speech, August 31st 1957

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“Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.” – Hubert Humphrey

“When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty” ~ John Basil Barnhill

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