Harold J. Laski: “The opponents of Erastianism had a deep sense of their corporate Church, and it was a plea for ecclesiastical freedom…”

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.

We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.

Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.

Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.