And exactly as we cannot admit the right of a man to make his own law in the internal life of the community, so we cannot allow the single nation-state to make its own law in the wider life of the international community.
Laski draws a parallel between individual and national law-making, advocating for a collective international legal framework.
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We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.
The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.
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