Harold J. Laski: “To me, at least, they commit the ultimate blasphemy since they seek to fashion man in their own image.”

It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.

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

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.

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…