Harold J. Laski: “But they are bound to be at least apathetic, and possibly hostile, when the sense is wide and deep that they are no more…”

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

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

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.