Harold J. Laski: “A state must, therefore, assume that its duty to maintain peace and security lies at the very root of its existence.”

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.

The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.

The State has power only for the protection of natural law.

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.