For, otherwise, persecution will be built, not on fact, but on suspicion that facts may one day emerge, not on overt acts, but on principles of faith which are in truth only dangerous when they are expressed in practice.
Laski warns against persecution based on suspicion rather than fact.
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The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.
He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
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