Harold J. Laski: “Patience, foresight and generosity had not availed to win for William more than a grudging recognition of his kingship.”

The State has power only for the protection of natural law.

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

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.