Harold J. Laski: “But it is clear enough that Locke was shifting to very different ground from that which arrested the attention of his…”

Wilkes was a sign that the populace was slowly awaking to a sense of its own power.

Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.

Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.

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.