Harold J. Laski: “The real remedy for the High Churchmen was not exclusiveness but disestablishment.”

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

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

What is needed is a patriot king who will destroy corruption and awaken the spirit of liberty.

He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.