Harold J. Laski: “There is nothing more noble in Burke's career than his long attempt to mitigate the evils of Company rule in India.”

Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.

But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.

The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.

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