Harold J. Laski: “And conviction is born of consent for the simple reason that the real field of social action is in the individual mind.”

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.

Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.

The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.

Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.