Harold J. Laski: “He supported the Slave trade and he opposed the repeal of the Test Act.”

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.

He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.

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