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Where each man cautiously pursued the good as he saw it, the realization was bound, in his view, to be splendid.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgWhere each man cautiously pursued the good as he saw it, the realization was bound, in his view, to be splendid.
Laski suggests that individual pursuits of good can lead to collective greatness.
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When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
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