Harold J. Laski: “How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?”

Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.

When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.

He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.

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.