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Unless state and church pursue an independent path, liberty is sacrificed; for either fusion or partnership will, in fact, involve a conflict for supremacy.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski warns that without independent paths for church and state, liberty will be compromised.
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From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
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How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?
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