Harold J. Laski: “The organic society of the middle ages gives place to an individual who builds the State out of his own desires.”

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

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

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

There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.