When he enforced the resignation of the elder Pitt the theories at once of Edmund Burke and English radicalism were born; for the Present Discontents and the Society for the Support of the Bill of Rights are the dawn of a splendid recovery.
Laski connects the resignation of Pitt to the emergence of new political theories and movements in England.
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There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
Even Lincoln supported his generals in completely indefensible attacks on civilian rights.
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