Harold J. Laski: “People may come to see that where the quality of intelligence is concerned, the second-rate, the dull, the incurious…”

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

The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.