Harold J. Laski: “To insist that their rule of life is to be mine is, normally, to destroy my personality.”

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.

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.

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

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.