Harold J. Laski: “The state is not entitled to prohibit diffusion of such knowledge, or…”

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The state is not entitled to prohibit diffusion of such knowledge, or the practice of it.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski asserts that the state should not restrict the dissemination of knowledge about birth control.

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The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.

Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.

What is needed is a patriot king who will destroy corruption and awaken the spirit of liberty.

Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.

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Harold J. Laski: “The state is not entitled to prohibit diffusion of such knowledge, or the practice of it.”