Men of great property and position using their influence as a public trust, delicate in their sense of honor, and acting only from motives of right--these seemed to him the men who should with justice exercise political power.
Laski emphasizes the moral responsibility of those in power to act for the public good.
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Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.
But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.
From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
There is no danger that the general strike will ever be other than a weapon of last resort; the occasions when it can be successfully used will be of the utmost rarity.
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