Harold J. Laski: “The point I am seeking to make was summarized with the insight of genius by Disraeli when he spoke of the rich and poor…”

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

The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.

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