Harold J. Laski: “He put an end also to the confusion which resulted from the effort of thinkers to erect standards of right and wrong…”

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 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.