Harold J. Laski: “It can only be for the public benefit, and our enquiry is thus a study of the grounds of political obedience.”

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

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

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