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I cannot recognize those implications as necessary to a proper view of national freedom.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgI cannot recognize those implications as necessary to a proper view of national freedom.
Laski rejects the implications of national sovereignty as incompatible with a proper understanding of freedom.
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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 toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
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.