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Yet the definition of what limits were to be set to toleration was far from easy.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “Yet the definition of what limits were to be set to toleration was far from easy.”
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Laski points out the complexities involved in defining the limits of toleration.
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In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.
The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.
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