Harold J. Laski: “His flashes of insight are things that go, as few men have ever gone, into the hidden deeps of political complexity.”

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.

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

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

He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.