Harold J. Laski: “For the poor, their voluntary organizations evoke the same kind of impassioned loyalty as a nation struggling to be free…”

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.

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

The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.

If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.