Harold J. Laski: “If an English Communist leader writes a book or pamphlet, whatever its substance, and to whomever it is addressed, I do…”

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.

I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.