Harold J. Laski: “Historically, the road to tyranny has always lain through a denial of freedom in this realm.”

The State has power only for the protection of natural law.

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

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

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