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The civil servant is not merely an employee of government; he is also a citizen.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “The civil servant is not merely an employee of government; he is also a citizen.”
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Laski asserts that civil servants hold dual roles as both employees and citizens, highlighting their rights.
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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 such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.
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