Harold J. Laski: “Strong trade unionism always means that public opinion can be made effective in an industrial dispute.”

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

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.

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.