Harold J. Laski: “I accept the insight Harrington had when he insisted that the distribution of economic power in a state will control the…”

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.

I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.