Harold J. Laski: “The English constitution revealed to France an immense and unused reservoir of philosophic illustration.”

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.

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

We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.

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