Harold J. Laski: “The right to sue the state in tort seems to me quite fundamental to freedom.”

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.

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.

Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.