Harold J. Laski: “A state must, therefore, assume that its duty to maintain peace and security lies at the very root of its existence.”

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

Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.

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.

He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.