Though his influence upon his own time was immense; though Montesquieu owed to him the acutest of his insights; though the principles of the American Revolution are in large part an acknowledged adoption of his own; he has become one of the political classics who are taken for granted rather than read.
Laski argues that Locke's contributions to political thought are often taken for granted, despite their profound impact on subsequent revolutions.
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Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.
He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.
If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
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