This raises the larger question of whether freedom in the modern state can ever be satisfactorily secured by internal sanctions, and whether, in fact, it is ever durably possible save in the terms of a strong and stable international organization.
Laski questions whether true freedom can be achieved without strong international cooperation.
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We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.
If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.
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