Harold J. Laski: “In general, revolutions fail because those who make them deny freedom to their opponents.”

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

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

Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.

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.