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For it implies not only the right to beatify the present social order, but the right, also, to condemn it with vigour and completeness.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski explains that freedom of expression includes the right to both praise and criticize the social order.
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Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
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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The State has power only for the protection of natural law.
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