It can be done, first, by limiting the profits private ownership can make in any industry of vital importance, either absolutely so that the owners are debenture-holders merely, and not the residuary legatees of any profit made, or relatively, as in a scheme like that laid down for the gas companies of London.
Laski proposes limiting profits in essential industries to ensure fairness.
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What is needed is a patriot king who will destroy corruption and awaken the spirit of liberty.
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.
Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
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