Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader by John L. Hülshof
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domination of any kind. The people simply govern themselves, and the
government is of the people, by the people and for the people. FREEDOM OF THOUGHT We must have an end of all persecution of ideas. I condemn the government of France and Prussia when they oppress the Jesuits. I condemn the government of Russia when it oppresses the Jews. I affirm that to persecute ideas is like persecuting light, air, electricity, or the magnetic fluid. Ideas escape all persecution. When repressed they explode like powder. LESSON XXXVIII FALSE NOTIONS OF LIBERTY People talk of liberty as if it meant the liberty of doing what a man likes. The only liberty that a man should ask for is the privilege of removing all restrictions that prevent his doing what he ought to do. |
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