Harold J. Laski: “All government is a moral trust, and the idea of limitation is therein implied.”

When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.

Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.

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.