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The knowledge that an invasion of liberty will always meet with resistance from men determined upon its repulsion, this, in the last analysis, is the only true safeguard that we have.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski posits that resistance to the invasion of liberty is a fundamental safeguard.
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