Harold J. Laski: “It was thus Locke only in this period who confronted the general problems of the modern State.”

We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.

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.

When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.