Harold J. Laski: “Yet all of us agree that it is not the purpose of the law to prevent such speeches being made.”

Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.