Harold J. Laski: “The proper protection of the individual is deliberately neglected in the belief that a reign of terror will minimize…”

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

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

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.