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That imposition, broadly speaking, is essential to liberty since it makes for peace; and peace is the condition of continuity of liberty.
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Harold J. Laski
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Editor's note · Context
Here, Laski argues that certain societal impositions are essential for maintaining peace, which in turn supports liberty.
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The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.
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.
It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
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