Harold J. Laski: “That shrinkage of the purpose of the State will mean for most not merely hardship but degradation of all that makes life…”

To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.

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

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