Harold J. Laski: “Remember that Treitzschke’s eulogy of blood and iron is a picture of the same Germany as that which Bebel and Liebkneckt…”

He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.

Nor do I see why it is unconstitutional for Labour, as in 1926, to withdraw from work in an orderly and coherent way.

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.

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