Harold J. Laski: “Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.”

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.

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

Nor do I see why it is unconstitutional for Labour, as in 1926, to withdraw from work in an orderly and coherent way.

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