Harold J. Laski: “Whoever exerts power in a community is tempted to the abuse of power.”

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

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

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

The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.