Harold J. Laski: “Bentham absorbed the purpose of Rousseau even while he rejected his methods.”

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

It is an attempt to give each man as similar a chance as possible to utilize what powers he may possess.

The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.

There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.