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May 10, 2025

I respect fidelity to colleagues even though they are fit for the hangman.

Harold Laski (1893-1950), British Labour politician and academic, letter to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 4 December 1926, Jay p.218

Do you? Or don’t you?

You must! In governments that move by majority vote, every colleague is needed by you, and you by them, to achieve any legislative goal. Ignore everything else unless your fidelity puts you at genuine risk of being hanged.


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