Harold J. Laski: “And the greater the degree in which it springs from that persuasion, the greater, also, is the success of authority in…”

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.

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

The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.