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Principles were thus unimportant compared to the problem of their application.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “Principles were thus unimportant compared to the problem of their application.”
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Laski argues that the application of principles is more critical than the principles themselves in political discourse.
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