Harold J. Laski: “It is a conclusion arrived at after an attempt to penetrate behind the superficial appearance to what is truth-seeming.”

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.

Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.

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

Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.