Harold J. Laski: “They magnify scepticism into sedition and they accuse even their friends who doubt the virtue of severity of betraying…”

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.

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

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.

Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.