Harold J. Laski: “And its relevance as just is made not by those who announce that it is to be applied, but by those who receive its…”

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.

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

Even Lincoln supported his generals in completely indefensible attacks on civilian rights.

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.