Harold J. Laski: “That shrinkage of the purpose of the State will mean for most not…”

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That shrinkage of the purpose of the State will mean for most not merely hardship but degradation of all that makes life worthy.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski warns that a diminished role of the State will result in significant suffering and a loss of dignity for many individuals.

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The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.

When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.

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

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Harold J. Laski: “That shrinkage of the purpose of the State will mean for most not merely hardship but degradation of all that makes life…”