Harold J. Laski: “Therein we have some index of what it would achieve if left unhindered to work out its own destinies.”

From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.

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

The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.

There is no danger that the general strike will ever be other than a weapon of last resort; the occasions when it can be successfully used will be of the utmost rarity.