Harold J. Laski: “Certain principles, freedom of speech, protection from arbitrary arrest, and the like, are regarded as especially…”

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

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

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

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…