Harold J. Laski: “Our liberty has to be realized in a welter of competing and co-operating interests which only achieve rational…”

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

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

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

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…