Harold J. Laski: “They see what they want to see, and they select as truth that which serves the purpose they desire to see prevail.”

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

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…

He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.

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.