Harold J. Laski: “Some of them are essential to happiness, but that does not make them for a moment less emphatically limitations.”

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

I cannot accept the position that government is always entitled to count on industrial peace, whatever its policy.

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

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.