Harold J. Laski: “Nationalism becomes imperialism and this means the enslavement of lesser nations to the imperialistic power.”

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

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.

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