Harold J. Laski: “If it could, there would have been no Russian Revolution; and there would be no movement for Indian self-government…”

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.

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.

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.