Harold J. Laski: “It breeds oppression and ignorance, and poisons improvement by preventing individual initiative.”

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.

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

The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.