Harold J. Laski: “Yet that is the underlying assumption of much of our social life.”

Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.

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.

If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.

The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.