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All this, I think, is true; but it does not for a moment imply that a Bill of Rights is an automatic guarantee of liberty.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski acknowledges that while Bills of Rights are important, they do not automatically guarantee liberty.
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The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.
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