Harold J. Laski: “So soon as men are dissatisfied with the traditional foundations of the State, a gospel of natural rights is certain to…”

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.

We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.

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

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.