Harold J. Laski: “My point is that they dispose of the whole power of the state, and that there is no means of checking their activity…”

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

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

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.

Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.