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No class of men is so carefully trained as the judiciary to the habit of a balanced mind.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “No class of men is so carefully trained as the judiciary to the habit of a balanced mind.”
Editor's note · Context
Laski asserts that judges are uniquely trained to maintain a balanced perspective in their decisions.
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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.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
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