It can, I think, be shown that no citizen is secure in liberty unless certain rights are guaranteed to him, rights which the government of the state cannot hope to overthrow; and unless, to secure the maintenance of those rights, there is a separation of the judicial from the executive power.
Laski argues that individual liberty is secured only when certain rights are guaranteed and judicial power is separate from executive power.
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Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
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.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
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