Harold J. Laski: “Political thought, after all, however unwise or mistaken, is never born in a vacuum.”

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…

He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.

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

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