Harold J. Laski: “They magnify scepticism into sedition and they accuse even their friends who doubt the virtue of severity of betraying…”

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.

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.

If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.