Harold J. Laski: “For we know so well what makes us happy that none can hope to help us so much as we help ourselves.”

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.

I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.