Harold J. Laski: “But persecution, however thoroughgoing, will never, over any long period, be able to suppress significant truth.”

What is needed is a patriot king who will destroy corruption and awaken the spirit of liberty.

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

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

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.