Harold J. Laski: “Every postponement we accept, every failure before which we are dumb, only consolidates the forces that are hostile to…”

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.

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

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.