Harold J. Laski: “For it has been the singular good fortune of Burke not merely to obtain acceptance as the apostle of philosophic…”

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

Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.

To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.

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.