Harold J. Laski: “It remains for them almost entirely a police institution which, once it aims at the realization of right, usurps a…”

How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.

Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.