Harold J. Laski: “He had no doubt that property was a rightful index to power; and to disturb prescription seemed to him the opening 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.

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

It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.