On the evidence of history, persecution will not be acceptable as proof; and it is not improbable that the only legal effect of prohibition has been to make furtive and dishonest what was, at first, open and avowed.
Laski argues that prohibition often leads to secrecy rather than the elimination of practices.
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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.
If no such news is at hand it will be manufactured.
When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
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