When they demanded the right to worship the God they knew, in their own mind they were insisting that in one sphere, at least, of human experience, their own perception must count as ultimate.
Laski discusses the significance of personal belief in the context of religious freedom.
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Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.
He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.
From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
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