Harold J. Laski: “It ultimately must fail to satisfy them because it does not know what desires it has to satisfy.”

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.

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.

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.

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