Harold J. Laski: “Where there is respect for reason, there, also, is respect for freedom.”

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.

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.

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