Harold J. Laski: “History shows that it is just as likely as anyone else to abuse an…”

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History shows that it is just as likely as anyone else to abuse an unlimited authority.

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Laski warns that history demonstrates the potential for abuse of power by those in authority.

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I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.

He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.

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Harold J. Laski: “History shows that it is just as likely as anyone else to abuse an unlimited authority.”