Harold J. Laski: “With Locke, with Smith, with Hegel and with Marx, the ultimate hypothesis is always the summary of some special…”

We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.

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.

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.

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