Harold J. Laski: “The Bible, Shakespeare, Rabelais, Plato, Horace, Catullus, to take names at random, would all come under the ban.”

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.

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.

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

We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.