Harold J. Laski: “Those of whom I speak had no excuse save ignorant prejudice and the blindness of passion.”

The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.

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

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

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