Harold J. Laski: “My true self is not a selected system of rational purposes identical with those sought by every member of society.”

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

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.

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

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