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But law, as I have insisted earlier, does not exist for the sake of law.
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Harold J. Laski
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He emphasizes that law should serve a purpose beyond its existence, challenging the notion of law for law's sake.
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When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
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