Harold J. Laski: “No one can mistake the significance of this conflict.”

The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.

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.

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.