For the notion that, when the citizen has chosen his representatives for Parliament or his local authority, he can sit back in the comfortable knowledge that his wants are known, his interests safeguarded, has not one jot of evidence to support it.
Laski argues against the complacency of citizens believing their interests are automatically represented.
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Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.
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.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
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