Harold J. Laski: “We are not free, that is, unless we can form our plan of conduct to suit our own character without social penalties.”

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.

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

Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.