Harold J. Laski: “For we cannot suppress all modes of conduct in which excess does harm.”

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.

Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.

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