Harold J. Laski: “Not even the combined influence of the Crown and Commons, not even Lord Mansfield's doctrine of the law of libel, could…”

The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.

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.

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.