Harold J. Laski: “We have, in short, the difficulty that the control of news by special interests may make prisoners of men who believe…”

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

I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.

There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.

The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.