Harold J. Laski: “He cannot, on other grounds, use force for the simple reason that it does not produce internal conviction.”

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

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.

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

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