Harold J. Laski: “If it could, there would have been no Russian Revolution; and there would be no movement for Indian self-government…”

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.

Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.

He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.