Harold J. Laski: “So that when I obey it, I am, in fact, obeying myself; in a real sense its commands are my own.”

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.

Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.

Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.