Harold J. Laski: “A reaction against democratic ideals is the fashion, and the dictatorships which proliferate over half Europe are…”

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.

It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.

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