Harold J. Laski: “Laws are of three kinds--of nature, of God, and of the civil state.”

Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.

When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.

The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.

He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.