Harold J. Laski: “Nevertheless, economic security is not liberty though it is a condition without which liberty is never effective.”

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

Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.