Harold J. Laski: “Nothing was more alien from Burke's temper than deductive thinking in politics.”

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

If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.

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

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