Harold J. Laski: “If it meets always with obedience, sooner or later it will assume its own infallibility.”

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

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

Wilkes was a sign that the populace was slowly awaking to a sense of its own power.

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