Harold J. Laski: “A franchise limited to the owners of property means legislation in the interests of that class.”

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.

He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.

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.

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