Harold J. Laski: “The things that the poor have absent from their lives, that concept of a national minimum below which no State can hope…”

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

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.

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

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