Harold J. Laski: “If views, moreover, which imply disorder are able to disturb the foundations of the state, there is something supremely…”

Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.

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.

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

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.