Harold J. Laski: “They have an unlimited sense of a divinely appointed mission, and the whole of their life is set in its perspective.”

He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

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

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