Harold J. Laski: “The great debate inaugurated by the Reformation ceased when Locke had outlined an intelligible basis for parliamentary…”

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.

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

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

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