Harold J. Laski: “It seems to me that this power to deny admission to citizenship, as it is exercised, is a complete denial of natural…”

Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.

The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.

Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.

Wilkes was a sign that the populace was slowly awaking to a sense of its own power.