Harold J. Laski: “If he is driven, in this realm, to silence and inactivity, he becomes a dumb and inarticulate creature, whose…”

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

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.

Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.

When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.