Harold J. Laski: “Everyone who considers the relation of liberty to the institutions of a state will, I think, find it difficult to resist…”

The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.

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.

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