On the record
I conclude, therefore, that in general we shall not allow, as a society, the mechanisms of the state to serve the cause of freedom unless we approve the objects at which freedom aims.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski concludes that societal approval of freedom's objectives is crucial for the state's mechanisms to support freedom.
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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.
The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
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