Harold J. Laski: “Once it is admitted that the object of the State is the achievement of the good life, the final canon of politics is…”

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.

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…

We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.

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