Harold J. Laski: “We can only say that some principles, by being imposed, are bound up…”

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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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Laski suggests that some imposed principles are intrinsically linked to the essence of freedom itself.

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I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.

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Harold J. Laski: “We can only say that some principles, by being imposed, are bound up with the very heart of freedom.”