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Admitting while he did that politics must rest upon expediency, he never failed to find good reason why expediency should be identified with what he saw as right.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “Admitting while he did that politics must rest upon expediency, he never failed to find good reason why expediency…”
Editor's note · Context
Laski acknowledges the necessity of expediency in politics while advocating for moral considerations.
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To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
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