Harold J. Laski: “In the Wilkes affair he threw the clearest light of the century upon the true nature of the House of Commons.”

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.

To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.

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

We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.