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Yet the first of many answers is surely the most obvious fact that if man is so much the creature of his custom no reason would prevail save where they proved inadequate.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski suggests that if humans are primarily shaped by customs, then only inadequate customs will prompt change.
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Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.
Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.
We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.
Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
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