Harold J. Laski: “So that the chief end of patriotism is its maintenance; though we are never told what liberty is, nor how it is to be…”

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

We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.

It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.

To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.