No one now doubts that the Espionage Acts were strained so as to destroy almost all that the first Amendment was intended to cover; that most of the charges preferred under it were, on their face, ludicrous.
Laski critiques the Espionage Acts for undermining the protections intended by the First Amendment.
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There is no danger that the general strike will ever be other than a weapon of last resort; the occasions when it can be successfully used will be of the utmost rarity.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.
From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
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