Harold J. Laski: “I do not know how to emphasize sufficiently the quite inescapable importance to freedom of the content of the…”

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.

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.

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

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.