Harold J. Laski: “For Bentham made an end of natural rights; and his contempt for the past was even more unsparing than Locke's own.”

There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.

If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.