Harold J. Laski: “Yet Locke's insistence on consent and natural rights has received new meaning from each critical period of history since…”

Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.

It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.

We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.

We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.