Harold J. Laski: “Nevertheless, economic security is not liberty though it is a condition without which liberty is never effective.”

From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.

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

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.

The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.