Harold J. Laski: “It is a technique, I think, which almost always comes into play when dangerous opinion is challenged by the state.”

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.

Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.

If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.