Harold J. Laski: “There is no immortality save in ideas; and it was Burke who gave a…”

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There is no immortality save in ideas; and it was Burke who gave a permanent form to the debate in which he was the liberal protagonist.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski asserts the enduring power of ideas, crediting Burke with shaping the liberal debate in a lasting way.

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We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.

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If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.

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