Harold J. Laski: “He trusted no one but himself, and he totally misunderstood the true nature of his office.”

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

Even Lincoln supported his generals in completely indefensible attacks on civilian rights.

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

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