It is even possible to understand why some insisted that if those privileges were, as Burke had argued, essential to the construction of the whole, it was against that whole, alike in purpose and in realization, that they were in revolt.
Laski discusses the argument that essential privileges can lead to revolt against the societal whole.
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Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
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