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Like Blackstone, he was impressed by the necessity of obtaining a constitutional equilibrium, wherein he finds the secret of liberty.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski emphasizes the importance of achieving a balance in governance for the preservation of liberty.
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We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
If no such news is at hand it will be manufactured.
The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.
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