Harold J. Laski: “Men enjoy the exercise of power; no passion has a deeper hold upon human impulse.”

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

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 revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.