Harold J. Laski: “The basis of revolutionary doctrine was already present in England when, in 1762, Rousseau published his Contrat Social.”

We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.

Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.

Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.

He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.