Harold J. Laski: “That has been the case with bootleggers in America and with night-clubs in London.”

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

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

He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.

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