Harold J. Laski: “Power is, by its very nature, an exercise in the conditional mood.”

The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.

But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.

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.

I cannot accept the position that government is always entitled to count on industrial peace, whatever its policy.