Harold J. Laski: “It becomes merely a voluntary society, which can exert no power save over its members.”

Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.

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.

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