Harold J. Laski: “I believe, therefore, that, with all its difficulties and dangers, the area of local government should be as little…”

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

He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.

Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.

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