Harold J. Laski: “Everyone who considers the relation of liberty to the institutions of a state will, I think, find it difficult to resist…”

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

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

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

Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.