We can leave to England, for instance, her full cultural independence, her characteristic internal institutions, her special contacts with the Dominions she has begotten; to sacrifice the predominance of her navy, her right, by its means, to dictate the law of the sea, would still leave her England.
Laski asserts that England can maintain its cultural identity while giving up certain naval powers.
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Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
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