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Harold J. Laski: Locke saw that vigilance is the sister of liberty, where Hobbes dismissed the one as faction and the other as disorder.

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Locke saw that vigilance is the sister of liberty, where Hobbes dismissed the one as faction and the other as disorder.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski highlights Locke's belief in vigilance as essential to liberty, contrasting it with Hobbes' dismissal of it.

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