Harold J. Laski: “The eighteenth century has an importance in English politics which the comparative absence of systematic speculation can…”

Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.

We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.

The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.

Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.