Harold J. Laski: “They become the mere inert recipients of orders which they obey without scrutiny of any kind.”

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.

Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.

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.