Harold J. Laski: “It shall not exclude men from the legal profession because they are black or Wesleyans or freemasons.”

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.

If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.

Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.