Harold J. Laski: “And the rule of reason is the only kind of rule which can afford the luxury of freedom.”

Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.

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

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

The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.