No man was more eager than he that the public should be admitted to the mysteries of political debate; yet he steadfastly refused to draw the obvious inference that once the means of government were made known those who possessed the knowledge would demand their share in its application.
Laski points out the contradiction in Burke's advocacy for public engagement in politics while denying them power, highlighting a key tension in democratic theory.
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How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.
The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.
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