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In these pages, I have taken the view that liberty means that there is no restraint upon those conditions which, in modern civilization, are the necessary guarantees of individual happiness.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski argues that liberty is fundamentally linked to the conditions that ensure individual happiness in modern society.
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From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.
Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.
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