Churchill Andrew Sullivan finds this quote by Churchill on November 21, 1943 while discussing the Hamden case and the President's role in it: "The
November 6, 2005

Churchill

Andrew Sullivan finds this quote by Churchill on November 21, 1943 while discussing the Hamden case and the President's role in it:

"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."

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