Harold J. Laski: “He is seeking happiness; some order seems to him a wanton invasion of that happiness.”

We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.

From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.

The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.

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