Harold J. Laski: “It is always a threat to those who operate the engines of authority that prohibition of experience will be denied.”

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

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

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.

Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.