Harold J. Laski: “Every study of freedom is a plea for toleration; and every plea for toleration is a vindication of the rights of reason.”

Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.

The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.

Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

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