Harold J. Laski: “The chief danger which always confronts a society is the desire of those who possess power to prohibit ideas and conduct…”

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.

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.

To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.