Harold J. Laski: “The point it is important to examine is the degree of control, if any, that the state is entitled to exercise over…”

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

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.

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.

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