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Nevertheless, economic security is not liberty though it is a condition without which liberty is never effective.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgNevertheless, economic security is not liberty though it is a condition without which liberty is never effective.
Laski distinguishes between economic security and liberty, asserting that the former is essential for the latter to be meaningful.
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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.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.