Harold J. Laski: “The way, therefore, of freedom is to arrange the pattern of social institutions so that there are no privileges to…”

How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?

Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.

Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.

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