Harold J. Laski: “Into them, as principles, I pour my personality, and life, for me, derives its meaning from their unique texture.”

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

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

Nor do I see why it is unconstitutional for Labour, as in 1926, to withdraw from work in an orderly and coherent way.

The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.