Harold J. Laski: “It has a life and a reality, needs and purposes, which are not…”

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It has a life and a reality, needs and purposes, which are not exhausted by the sum of the needs and purposes of its individual members.

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Harold J. Laski

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This quote highlights the notion that a nation has its own needs and purposes that transcend those of its individual members.

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Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.

If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.

The State has power only for the protection of natural law.

The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.

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