Harold J. Laski: “But I think it urgent that his criticism should be available to society.”

Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.

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.

The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.

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