Harold J. Laski: “What man is he who can by his own natural authority bend the conscience of another?”

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

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

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

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