Harold J. Laski: “Most people would agree that a statute compelling an atheist to go to church was utterly foolish.”

The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.

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

We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.

Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.