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For this reason I believe that any attempt at partnership between them is bound to result in injury to freedom somewhere.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski believes that any partnership between church and state will ultimately harm freedom.
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There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.
Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.
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