Harold J. Laski: “The party-system was already inevitable; and with his advent to full power in 1727 we have the characteristic outlines…”

Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.

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.

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