Harold J. Laski: “You will see that my anxiety is to maximize the difficulties of any government which desires to initiate prosecutions in…”

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

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

Nor do I see why it is unconstitutional for Labour, as in 1926, to withdraw from work in an orderly and coherent way.

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