Harold J. Laski: “Men are made not by being safeguarded against temptation but by being able to triumph over it.”

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.

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

He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.

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