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The book, the pamphlet, the newspaper, ought to circulate with unimpeded freedom in whatever direction they can move.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “The book, the pamphlet, the newspaper, ought to circulate with unimpeded freedom in whatever direction they can move.”
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He argues for the free circulation of printed materials as essential for a healthy society.
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There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.
From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
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