Harold J. Laski: “No man can be governed without his consent; for government is founded upon a contract by which civil liberty is…”

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

Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.

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

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.