Harold J. Laski: “Can it, further, be shown that such a temper in the citizen is likely, as it grows, to confer benefit upon the community…”

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.

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.

Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.