Harold J. Laski: “So the ancient régime moves relentlessly to its destruction.”

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

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

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…

The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.