I can think of no revolutionary period in history when a government has gained by stifling the opinion of men who did not see eye to eye with it; and I suggest that the revolutionary insistence that persuasion is futile finds little creative evidence in its support.
Laski argues that governments do not benefit from suppressing dissenting opinions during revolutionary periods.
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