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What we need to know is, I suggest, first what those realms of conduct are, and, second, what my duty as a citizen is when I am, in any one of them, prohibited from acting as I please.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “What we need to know is, I suggest, first what those realms of conduct are, and, second, what my duty as a citizen is…”
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Laski stresses the importance of understanding the realms of conduct that define a citizen's freedom.
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