What Keir Hardie did for the miners of Ayrshire, what Sidney Hillman has done for the garment workers of America, are as epic and as creative, in their way, as the work of Garibaldi and Mazzini.
Laski draws parallels between labor leaders and historical figures known for their revolutionary impact.
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If no such news is at hand it will be manufactured.
The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
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.
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