Harold J. Laski: “No man has ever more consistently devoted his energies to the service of the nation with less regard for personal…”

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

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

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.

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