Harold J. Laski: “The problem, as we now know, is far more complex than the older thinkers imagined.”

We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.

How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?

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.

Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.