Harold J. Laski: “It took almost a century after the publication of the Wealth of Nations for men to realize that its axioms represented…”

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.

I cannot accept the position that government is always entitled to count on industrial peace, whatever its policy.