Harold J. Laski: “Neither conditions nor guarantees will ever be perfect; nor will they ever cover all upon which happiness depends.”

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

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.

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