Harold J. Laski: “He did not ask the abandonment of British dominion in India, though he may have doubted the wisdom of its conquest.”

Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.

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

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.

The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.