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We can only say that some principles, by being imposed, are bound up with the very heart of freedom.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “We can only say that some principles, by being imposed, are bound up with the very heart of freedom.”
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Laski suggests that some imposed principles are intrinsically linked to the essence of freedom itself.
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To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.
We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
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