Harold J. Laski: “If we reject Locke's view of the natural goodness of men, Hobbes' sense of their evil character is not less remote from…”

Even Lincoln supported his generals in completely indefensible attacks on civilian rights.

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.

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.

I cannot accept the position that government is always entitled to count on industrial peace, whatever its policy.