Harold J. Laski: “The sense of solidarity comes only when the result of joint action impinges equally on the common life.”

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

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

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 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.