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I do sincerely plead that, especially in a democratic society, these are grave dangers to freedom, against which we cannot too stringently be upon our guard.
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Harold J. Laski
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This plea by Laski underscores the serious threats to freedom in a democratic society.
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He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?
Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.
When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.
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