Harold J. Laski: “The popular sense of right may often, as Aristotle saw, be wiser than the opinion of statesmen.”

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

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.

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.