Harold J. Laski: “The form into which he threw his questions gave them an eternal significance Locke can perhaps hardly claim.”

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

There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.

From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.

Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.