Harold J. Laski: “They consecrated freedom to the service of God.”

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.

Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.

The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.

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