Harold J. Laski: “They are anxious to control the publication of books, the production of plays, women’s dress, the laws governing sexual…”

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

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.

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