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This kind of plea for liberty is built, after all, upon the simple consideration that the world is likely to be the more happy if it refuses to build its institutions upon injustice.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski emphasizes the importance of justice in the pursuit of liberty for a happier society.
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Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.
The State has power only for the protection of natural law.
If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.
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