Harold J. Laski: “The form into which he threw his questions gave them an eternal significance Locke can perhaps hardly claim.”

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

To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.

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

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.