Harold J. Laski: “When the roots of religious freedom had been secured, it was easy for them to transfer their argument to the secular…”

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

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

Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.

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