Harold J. Laski: “The state-purpose, like any other, is expressed through the agency of men.”

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

It is an attempt to give each man as similar a chance as possible to utilize what powers he may possess.

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

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