Harold J. Laski: “It resulted in his failure to perceive how complex is the mass of motives imbedded in the political act.”

Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.

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