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I conclude, therefore, that if the nation is entitled to self-government, it is to a self-government limited and defined by the demands of a wider interest.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski concludes that self-government must be limited by broader international interests.
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Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
The State has power only for the protection of natural law.
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