Harold J. Laski: “The conditions of freedom are then those which assure the absence of such invasion.”

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.

Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.

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

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