Harold J. Laski: “Government must be restrained in the interests of liberty.”

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.

When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.

There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.