Harold J. Laski: “History is rather the record of the thwarting of human desire than of its achievement.”

Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

I cannot accept the position that government is always entitled to count on industrial peace, whatever its policy.

I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.

From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.