Harold J. Laski: “It was a deliberate effort, upon the basis of Adam Smith's ideas, to create a commonwealth in the interests of the…”

I cannot accept the position that government is always entitled to count on industrial peace, whatever its policy.

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

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

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.