Harold J. Laski: “The theorists build an edifice each part of which a man whose passion is attuned to the English nature can show to be…”

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.

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

The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.