Harold J. Laski: “For the one assured result of historical investigation is the lesson that uncontrolled power is invariably poisonous to…”

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

There is no danger that the general strike will ever be other than a weapon of last resort; the occasions when it can be successfully used will be of the utmost rarity.

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

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.