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But no government is entitled itself to assume that disorder is imminent: the proof must be offered to an independent authority.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski emphasizes that governments must provide evidence before assuming that speech will lead to disorder.
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It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
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 it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
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