If a statesman not in office, Mr Roosevelt, for example, thinks the diplomatic policy of the executive likely to be attended by fatal results, must he confine himself to private representations, lest public utterance hinder the national unity?
Laski questions whether public figures should voice concerns about government policies during wartime.
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The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.
Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.
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