The adult is endangering his happiness if he believes that truth is what Karl Marx said, or Mussolini tells him, or the inferences of Mr Baldwin which the latter has in turn drawn from material prepared for him by the Research Department of the Conservative Central Office.
Laski warns against accepting truths based solely on authority figures without independent verification.
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Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.
When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.
The State has power only for the protection of natural law.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
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