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For this reason I believe that any attempt at partnership between them is bound to result in injury to freedom somewhere.
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Harold J. Laski
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Editor's note · Context
Laski believes that any partnership between church and state will ultimately harm freedom.
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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.
The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
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.
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