Harold J. Laski Quote - Liberty Quotes Blog

"The only real security for social well-being
is the free exercise of men’s minds."

by:	Harold J. Laski (1893-1950) British political theorist, economist, author, and lecturer
Source:	Authority in the Modern State, 1919
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Categories:	Conscience, Free Thought, Proverbs, Safety, Security, Wisdom
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Ultimately then,after everything is said and done,we should have social wellbeing in America as long as Americans have the free exercise of their minds,according to this quote. -- KS, Somewhere,USA
-- Mike, Norwalk
Freethinking is not the problem -- it is forcing Utopian dreams upon others that is the problem. The ideas of Communism got their hold through freedom of speech, but the effort to then convert free men into wards of the state crosses the line from liberty to tyranny. -- E Archer, NYC