The citizen who asks for freedom is entitled to the conditions which, collectively, are the guarantees that he will be able to go on the road to his happiness, as he conceives it, unhindered.
Laski emphasizes the importance of freedom as a prerequisite for individual happiness.
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There is no danger that the general strike will ever be other than a weapon of last resort; the occasions when it can be successfully used will be of the utmost rarity.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.
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