Harold J. Laski: “I conclude that its recognition as a state, if sovereignty be involved in that recognition, is incompatible with a just…”

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.

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

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