Harold J. Laski: “But I am arguing that any rule which demands from me something I would not otherwise give is a diminution of my freedom.”

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

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

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…

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