One has only to remember the Treason Trials of 1794, where there was not a scintilla of evidence against any one of the accused, or the follies enacted by governments during the Great War, to see that this is the case.
Laski references historical injustices to illustrate the dangers of government overreach.
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We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.
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