Harold J. Laski: “Therein we have a sense, less clear in any previous writer save Machiavelli, of the real result of the decay of medieval…”

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…

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

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.

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