Harold J. Laski: “He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no…”

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.

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…

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.