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I can see no reason in the world why, like any other body serving the public, it should not be responsible for the torts of its agents.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “I can see no reason in the world why, like any other body serving the public, it should not be responsible for the torts…”
Editor's note · Context
Laski asserts that the state should be held accountable for the actions of its agents, similar to any public organization.
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We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
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.
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.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
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