Harold J. Laski: “The persecution of opinion grows by what it feeds on.”

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.

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.

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