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Liberty becomes their realization; and the object of the State is to enable men in the fullest sense to secure the satisfaction of their private wants.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski argues that the purpose of the State is to facilitate individual liberty and the satisfaction of personal desires.
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If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.
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.
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.
How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?
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