Harold J. Laski: “We ought rather to be critical of every proposal that asks for a surrender of liberty.”

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

If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.

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

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.