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There can, under these conditions, be no freedom that is worth while unless the mind is trained to use its freedom.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “There can, under these conditions, be no freedom that is worth while unless the mind is trained to use its freedom.”
Editor's note · Context
Laski asserts that true freedom requires a trained mind capable of utilizing that freedom effectively.
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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.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
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