Harold J. Laski: “If God is to be banished from direct connection with earthly affairs, we must seek a human explanation of political…”

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

How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?

I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.

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.