It ought not to be sufficient for a government to say that since a particular party has beliefs which include the right to violence and has elsewhere practised violence, that its suppression is legitimate.
Laski argues against the legitimacy of suppressing groups based solely on their beliefs about violence.
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I cannot accept the position that government is always entitled to count on industrial peace, whatever its policy.
Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
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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