Harold J. Laski: “To limit the right to strike is a form of industrial servitude.”

From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.

Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.