Whatever is to be said against the democratic form of state, it seems to me unquestionable that it has forced the needs of humble men on the attention of government in a way impossible under any other form.
Laski defends democracy by asserting that it uniquely brings the needs of ordinary people to the forefront of governmental attention.
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The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.
Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.
But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.
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