Harold J. Laski: “The purpose for which authority is exercised is the maximum satisfaction of desire.”

Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.

What is needed is a patriot king who will destroy corruption and awaken the spirit of liberty.

Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

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