Harold J. Laski: “A government which defied the fundamental impulses of men was bound to court disaster.”

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

The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.

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

The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.