Harold J. Laski: “But he met the new desires with hate instead of understanding, and the Napoleonic wars drove the current of democratic…”

The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.

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 more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.

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