Harold J. Laski: “But persecution, however thoroughgoing, will never, over any long period, be able to suppress significant truth.”

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

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…

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

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