Harold J. Laski: “There is no crime they have not been prepared to commit for the defence or the extension of their own power.”

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.

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

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

When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.