Harold J. Laski: “Yet there is no question with which he dealt that he did not leave the richer for his enquiry.”

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

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

Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.

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