Harold J. Laski: “For its search is not to realize itself for its own sake, but for what, as it is realized, it is able to bring.”

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

Even Lincoln supported his generals in completely indefensible attacks on civilian rights.

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

Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.