Harold J. Laski: “Life is made a struggle beneficent, indeed, but deriving its ultimate meaning from the misery incident to it.”

Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.

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.

What is needed is a patriot king who will destroy corruption and awaken the spirit of liberty.

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.