For Rousseau declared that the existing distribution of power in Europe was a monstrous thing, and he made the people sovereign that there might be no hindrance to their achievement in the shape of sinister interest.
Laski notes Rousseau's declaration that the existing power distribution in Europe was unjust, advocating for popular sovereignty.
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Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
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.
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