True liberty is thus so far from being an absence of restraint that it is essentially subordination to a system of rational purposes which receive their highest expression in the activity of the state.
Laski argues that true liberty involves a commitment to rational purposes, which are best expressed through the state.
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The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.
But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.
Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
Even Lincoln supported his generals in completely indefensible attacks on civilian rights.
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