Harold J. Laski: “For men, in fact, will not obey law which goes counter to what they regard as fundamental.”

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…

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.

When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.

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