Harold J. Laski: “I shall seek, further, to draw the conclusion that, whatever the forms of social organization, liberty is essentially an…”

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

The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.

To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.

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.