Harold J. Laski: “Severity on one side is met by brutality upon another; one might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.”

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

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

Wilkes was a sign that the populace was slowly awaking to a sense of its own power.

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.