Harold J. Laski: “They do not, as Hegel insisted, find their liberty in obedience to the law.”

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

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

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.

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