Harold J. Laski: “Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.”

He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.

If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.