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No opportunity should be offered for the exercise of power unless by its application men are released from trammels of which it is the necessary price of purchase.
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Harold J. Laski
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Editor's note · Context
Laski asserts that power should only be exercised to liberate individuals from constraints.
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It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.
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.
We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
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