Harold J. Laski: “His conduct must be dignified, and he must acquire his influence not…”

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His conduct must be dignified, and he must acquire his influence not apart from, but on account of, the affection of his people.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski argues that a monarch's influence should stem from the affection of the people, not from power alone.

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Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.

It is an attempt to give each man as similar a chance as possible to utilize what powers he may possess.

If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.

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