A State, that is to say, which aims at giving to men the full capacity their trained initiative would permit is compelled to regard certain things as beyond the action of an ordinary legislature.
This quote illustrates Laski's view that a progressive State must recognize limits beyond legislative action.
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From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
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When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.
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