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Yet a denial of his right to do these things is a denial of his happiness.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgYet a denial of his right to do these things is a denial of his happiness.
Laski contends that denying individuals their rights ultimately undermines their happiness.
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He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.
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.