At such times, it is impossible to trust those who are charged with the exercise of power; and only the knowledge that swift and certain punishment will follow its abuse will make our rulers attentive to the needs of freedom.
Laski stresses the importance of punishing the abuse of power to ensure the protection of freedom.
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The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.
He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
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.
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