Harold J. Laski: “If power is held by a few, happiness will be confined to a few also.”

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

Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.

The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.

He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.