Harold J. Laski: “They were protesting against a system strongly upheld on grounds which now appear to have been simply indefensible.”

He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.

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.

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

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.