Harold J. Laski: “For no outlook which has behind it the support of considerable numbers…”

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For no outlook which has behind it the support of considerable numbers will ever silently acquiesce in its reduction to impotence.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski notes that any belief supported by a significant number of people will resist attempts to diminish its influence.

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The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.

Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.

From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.

Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

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