Harold J. Laski: “These would be, if they could, modern Inquisitors, without tolerance and without pity, thinking no means unjustified if…”

The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.

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.

If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.