Harold J. Laski: “A merely legal theory of the State can never, therefore, exhaust the problems of political philosophy.”

If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.

He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.

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

Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.