Harold J. Laski: “A true theory of liberty, I urge, is built upon a denial of each of the assumptions of idealism.”

We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.

The intolerance may be Catholic, when it insists that a unity of outlook is essential for the preservation of society; or it may be Protestant when, as with Calvin and the Socinians, it holds that the blasphemous nature of the belief…

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.

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