Harold J. Laski: “I want to emphasize the logic of that state in an international community so inescapably interdependent as this.”

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

It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.

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.

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.