Harold J. Laski: “When they stifle that criticism, they prepare the way for their own destruction.”

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.

But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.

Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.