Anything less than this seems to me a wanton abuse of freedom; and, mutatis mutandis, this type of safeguard seems to me urgent wherever a Minister is given a discretionary power which affects the liberty of the subject.
Laski warns against the abuse of discretionary power by government ministers.
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Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
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