Harold J. Laski: “They do not, as Hegel insisted, find their liberty in obedience to the law.”

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

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

He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.

Nor do I see why it is unconstitutional for Labour, as in 1926, to withdraw from work in an orderly and coherent way.