Harold J. Laski: “Since the friends of liberty too often sleep, their unceasing vigilance not seldom meets with its reward.”

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

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…

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