Harold J. Laski: “There was no reason even for agreement, so long as each party was guided by an honorable sense of the public good.”

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

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.