Harold J. Laski: “Therein we have some index of what it would achieve if left unhindered to work out its own destinies.”

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…

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

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.