Harold J. Laski: “Popular sentiment approves a law against murder, and you can enforce that law.”

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

If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.

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

We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.