Harold J. Laski: “Every state contains innumerable and stupid men who see in unconventional thought the imminent destruction of social…”

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

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.

To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.

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.