Harold J. Laski: “A people in wartime is always blind to the facts of its position and anxious to believe only agreeable news; the…”

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

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

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

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