Harold J. Laski: “Rather will oppression in its turn arouse a sense of wrong and that be parent of a conscience which provokes to action.”

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.

Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.

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.