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But liberty and raison d’état are mutually incompatible for the simple reason that raison d’état is a principle which seeks, a priori, to exclude rational discussion from the field.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski asserts that liberty and the principle of raison d’état are fundamentally incompatible.
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From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.
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