Harold J. Laski: “Locke's work may have been not seldom confused and stumbling; but it gave to the principle of consent a permanent place…”

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

How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?

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

When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.