Yet when Fox is little more than a memory of great lovableness and Pitt a marvellous youth of apt quotations, Burke has endured as the permanent manual of political wisdom without which statesmen are as sailors on an uncharted sea.
Laski reflects on the enduring wisdom of Burke in political discourse.
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He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.
If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.
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