Harold J. Laski: “The use of reason is the law of liberty; conflict means the erosion of liberty.”

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

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

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…

He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.