One has only to remember the Treason Trials of 1794, where there was not a scintilla of evidence against any one of the accused, or the follies enacted by governments during the Great War, to see that this is the case.
Laski references historical injustices to illustrate the dangers of government overreach.
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When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.
The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.
He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
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