Harold J. Laski: “We know that there is one technique only capable of securing good government and that is the training of the mass of men…”

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

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

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.

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