Harold J. Laski: “There is no liberty without freedom of speech.”

We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.

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

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

He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.