Harold J. Laski: “Once we inhibit freedom of speech, we inhibit criticism of social institutions.”

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

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

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…