Harold J. Laski: “It can only be for the public benefit, and our enquiry is thus a study of the grounds of political obedience.”

How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?

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

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.

Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.