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Civilization is strewn with the wrecks of systems which men at one time held for true; systems, also, in the name of which liberty was denied and pain needlessly inflicted.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski reflects on the historical consequences of false beliefs that have led to the denial of liberty and inflicted suffering.
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The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
What is needed is a patriot king who will destroy corruption and awaken the spirit of liberty.
If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.
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