Harold J. Laski: “I may, in fact, be most fully free when I am most suffused with the sense of compulsion.”

Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.

From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.

He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.