Harold J. Laski: “But, human nature being what it is, men do not easily surrender what they have the power to retain; and they will pay…”

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.

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

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

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