Harold J. Laski: “They could not but ask for happiness in their own individual lives no less than in the State of which they were part.”

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

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.

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.

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