Harold J. Laski: “Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.”

The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.

The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.

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.

He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.