Harold J. Laski: “He was wrong about Wilkes, wrong about America, wrong about Ireland, wrong about France.”

Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.

When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.

How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?

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.