Harold J. Laski: “Nor is it, as Hobbes made it, the resignation of power into the hands of some single man or group.”

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

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

There is no danger that the general strike will ever be other than a weapon of last resort; the occasions when it can be successfully used will be of the utmost rarity.

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