Harold J. Laski: “A generation of corrupt practice and the final defeat of Stuart hopes had already deprived the Whigs of any special hold…”

He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.

I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.

Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.

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.