Harold J. Laski: “The right to speak it, to print it, to seek in concert with others its translation into the event, is fundamental to…”

I cannot accept the position that government is always entitled to count on industrial peace, whatever its policy.

Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.

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.

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.