Harold J. Laski: “We are in the difficulty that every step we take towards freedom is a step towards the equalization of privileges now…”

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

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.

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

He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.