Harold J. Laski: “Popular sentiment approves a law against murder, and you can enforce that law.”

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

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

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.

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