On the record
The state is not entitled to prohibit diffusion of such knowledge, or the practice of it.
Said by
Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgThe state is not entitled to prohibit diffusion of such knowledge, or the practice of it.
Laski asserts that the state should not restrict the dissemination of knowledge about birth control.
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He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.