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Liberty becomes their realization; and the object of the State is to enable men in the fullest sense to secure the satisfaction of their private wants.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski argues that the purpose of the State is to facilitate individual liberty and the satisfaction of personal desires.
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Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
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