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The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski asserts that the value of freedom of thought and speech is inherently positive.
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We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.
In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.
Nor do I see why it is unconstitutional for Labour, as in 1926, to withdraw from work in an orderly and coherent way.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
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