Harold J. Laski: “The freedom that the poor desire in a society such as this is the freedom to enjoy the things their rulers enjoy.”

It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.

We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.

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

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