Harold J. Laski: “The English avoid these dangers by playing off the royal power against the popular.”

When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.

But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.

How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?

Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.