Harold J. Laski: “If the Communist Party in England sought to initiate a rebellion, there would be a threat to the supremacy of the law.”

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

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.