"Montesquieu, of course, is like a great searchlight overtopping all of them from Aristotle."
— Montesquieu

January 1, 1970

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Harold Laski to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (4 September 1924), quoted in Holmes–Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski 1916–1935, ed. Mark DeWolfe Howe (1953), p. 655