Harold J. Laski: “Every widespread conviction of her people had been wantonly outraged by the blundering stupidity of James.”

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

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

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…

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