Harold J. Laski: “Liberty means being faithful to oneself, and it is maintained by the courage to resist.”

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

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

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