Harold J. Laski: “Such a church, quite obviously, is the mere creature of the state; it sacrifices its spiritual birthright for a material…”

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.

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

Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.

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