Harold J. Laski: “The French made every effort to find the secret of English principles, but the roots were absent from their national…”

If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.

Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.

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.

Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.