Harold J. Laski: “It can, in fact, only be moralized to the degree to which it is subject to critical examination in every aspect of its…”

The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.

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.