Harold J. Laski: “If an English Communist leader writes a book or pamphlet, whatever its substance, and to whomever it is addressed, I do…”

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

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

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…