Harold J. Laski: “To be one with that activity may well then be regarded as the highest freedom a citizen can know.”

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

He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.

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

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.