Harold J. Laski: “Successful legislation is almost always legislation for which the minds of men are anxious; the channels of assent to it…”

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

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.

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.