Harold J. Laski: “The ultimate and inescapable fact in politics is the final variety of human wills.”

It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.

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.

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.

We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.