Benno C. Schmidt Quote

Quote from Benno C. Schmidt,

"Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government – but the reverse… If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom…"

By:	Benno C. Schmidt (more quotes by Benno C. Schmidt or books by/about Benno C. Schmidt)
	President, Yale University
Source:	Christian Science Monitor, 5 December 1986
Categories:	Government, President
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