Harold J. Laski: “But perverse, foolish, ignorant, it is the only guide we have.”

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.

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

Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.