Harold J. Laski: “Mill’s principle, if carried to its logical conclusion, would mean that every nation has a title to statehood.”

Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.

He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.

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

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