Harold J. Laski: “Most men who are prohibited from thinking as their experience teaches them soon cease to think at all.”

Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.

The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.

The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.