Harold J. Laski: “Every one of these attitudes is a blunder; especially is it a blunder, for which we pay heavily, in matters of social…”

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

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

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.

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