Harold J. Laski: “It is an abuse of power when the owners of halls in Boston refuse to hire them to the promoters of a meeting in memory…”

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.

There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.

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.

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