Harold J. Laski: “The State, he argues, has no power over bishops whose relationship to their flock is purely spiritual and derived from…”

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

It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.

The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.

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