Harold J. Laski: “It is a painful and delicate operation; how painful and how delicate the timidity that has been characteristic of the…”

We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.

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

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.

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.