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Liberty means being faithful to oneself, and it is maintained by the courage to resist.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgLiberty means being faithful to oneself, and it is maintained by the courage to resist.
Laski defines liberty as fidelity to oneself, requiring courage to resist external pressures.
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When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
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.
The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.