Harold J. Laski: “Virtuous people who shrink from frank discussion in this realm seem to me responsible for probably more gratuitous…”

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.

Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.

How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?

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