Harold J. Laski: “Men never move to the adumbration of general right until the conquest of political rights has been proved inadequate.”

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

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

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

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.