Harold J. Laski: “If they are divine, no human authority can either supersede or limit them....”

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.

From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

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.