Those active-minded enough to fight for their rights will, doubtless, be always in a minority; but they prick the indifferent multitude into thought and they thus act as the gadflies of liberty.
Laski describes the role of active citizens as essential in challenging the complacency of the majority.
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We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
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.
We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
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