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From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Laski points out that statesmen of the eighteenth century were eager to distance themselves from the idea of democratic governance.
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The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
The State has power only for the protection of natural law.
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.
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