He regards with admiration the supremacy of the civil over the military arm, and the skillful way in which, contrary to French experience, it has been found possible to maintain a standing army without adding to the royal power.
Laski admires the civil supremacy over military power in the English system, contrasting it with French experiences.
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He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.
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