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I do not advocate the supremacy of international authority over the national state in order to destroy the national state.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski clarifies that he does not support international authority to undermine national states but rather to provide perspective on nationalism.
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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.
We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.
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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