Harold J. Laski: “The penumbra of freedom, its purpose and its life, is the movement for equality.”

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

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

It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.

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