Harold J. Laski: “My true self is not a selected system of rational purposes identical with those sought by every member of society.”

There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.

Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.

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

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.