Harold J. Laski: “Where war begins, the opportunity of making just solutions of any problem in dispute is indefinitely postponed.”

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.

The State has power only for the protection of natural law.

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

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