Harold J. Laski: “Men cannot be confined within the limits of so narrow a logic.”

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.

From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.

Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.

There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.