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Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. [...] We demand a government that rules according to the principles of equalitarianism and protectionism: that tolerates all who are prepared to reciprocate, i.e. who are tolerant; that is controlled by, and accountable to, the public. And we may add that some form of majority vote, together with institutions for keeping the public well informed, ist the best, though not infallible, means of controlling such a government.

Karl R. Popper, The open society and its enemies, 1945, aus Fussnote 4 zu Kapitel 7.