Harold J. Laski: “We must, I think, begin by a distinction between the written and the spoken word.”

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

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.

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…

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