Harold J. Laski: “He prevented the grant of Catholic emancipation at the one moment when it might have genuinely healed the wounds of…”

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.

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.

To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.

Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.