Harold J. Laski: “It is, I think, inevitable that those to whom these things are denied should envy those who possess them.”

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.

To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.

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…

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