Harold J. Laski: “He made no distinction between the unlimited sovereignty of law and the very obviously limited sovereignty of reality.”

Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

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

Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.

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