Harold J. Laski: “Our difficulty is that they will be taken to constitute it when it is to the interest of government to do so.”

When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.

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

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.

The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.