Harold J. Laski: “An unequal society always lives in fear, and with a sense of impending disaster in its heart.”

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

Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

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

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