Harold J. Laski: “The citizen seeks for happiness, and the state, for him, is an institution which exists to make his happiness possible.”

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

I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.

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.

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.