Harold J. Laski: “The right of revolution is noted, with justice, as belonging to the sphere of morals rather than of law.”

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.

To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.

Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.