Harold J. Laski: “He saw so much of virtue in the old order, that he insisted upon the equation of virtue with quintessence.”

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

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

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.

If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.