Harold J. Laski: “It remains for them almost entirely a police institution which, once it aims at the realization of right, usurps a…”

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.

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

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

We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.