Harold J. Laski: “They are bad because they are incapable of commonsense application; there is never any possibility of a wise…”

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…

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

The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.

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