Harold J. Laski: “There is immense significance in the fact that those who fought for…”

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There is immense significance in the fact that those who fought for religious liberty were the unconscious progenitors of civil liberty also.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski notes the historical link between the struggles for religious and civil liberties.

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That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.

He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.

From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.

When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.

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Harold J. Laski: “There is immense significance in the fact that those who fought for religious liberty were the unconscious progenitors…”