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The emphasis, now as then, is upon the problem of freedom.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski emphasizes the enduring importance of freedom in political discourse.
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Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
Even Lincoln supported his generals in completely indefensible attacks on civilian rights.
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