Harold J. Laski: “The things that the poor have absent from their lives, that concept of a national minimum below which no State can hope…”

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…

Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.

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

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