Harold J. Laski: “Freedom in economic matters, like freedom in religion, came rapidly to mean permission that diversity shall exist; and…”

Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.

If no such news is at hand it will be manufactured.

There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.