Harold J. Laski: “The Church, he claims, is not a visible society, presided over by men who have authority directly transmitted by Christ.”

But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.

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.

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

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.