Harold J. Laski: “No English statesman has ever more firmly moved amid a mass of details to the principle they involve.”

He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.

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

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.