France would be not the less France if the gold policy of her bank were set by an international authority, if she gave up her zeal for a conscript army, if she built her frontiers upon the impalpable solidity of friendship rather than the shifting waters of the Rhine.
Laski argues that France's identity would remain intact even with changes to its military and economic policies.
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We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
The intolerance may be Catholic, when it insists that a unity of outlook is essential for the preservation of society; or it may be Protestant when, as with Calvin and the Socinians, it holds that the blasphemous nature of the belief…
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When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
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