Harold J. Laski: “The citizen seeks for happiness, and the state, for him, is an institution which exists to make his happiness possible.”

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.

He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.

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.