Harold J. Laski: “What is termed the idealist theory of the state is broadly the argument that individual freedom means obedience to the…”

From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.

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

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

We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.