Harold J. Laski: “Even in a democracy, we must have ways and means of protecting the minority against a majority which seeks to invade its…”

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

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.

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