Harold J. Laski: “His foundation, moreover, of the Craftsman--the first official journal of a political party in England--showed his…”

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

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

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

The intolerance may be Catholic, when it insists that a unity of outlook is essential for the preservation of society; or it may be Protestant when, as with Calvin and the Socinians, it holds that the blasphemous nature of the belief…