Harold J. Laski: “It thus follows that the people must be sovereign, and interference with their natural rights will justify resistance.”

The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.

The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.

There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.