Harold J. Laski: “For the rule of reason in a community means that a special interest must always give way before the principles it…”

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

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

We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.

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