Harold J. Laski: “Election, re-election, a power in the government to dismiss, are all of them incompatible with the function the judge is…”

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

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.

The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.

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.