Harold J. Laski: “The agony of the troops will be obscured by the clouds of censorship.”

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

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…

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

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