Harold J. Laski: “History is an unenviable record of bad metaphysics used to defend obsolete systems.”

Nor do I see why it is unconstitutional for Labour, as in 1926, to withdraw from work in an orderly and coherent way.

There is no danger that the general strike will ever be other than a weapon of last resort; the occasions when it can be successfully used will be of the utmost rarity.

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.

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