Harold J. Laski: “There will never be liberty in any state where there is an excessive concentration of power at the centre.”

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.

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

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