Harold J. Laski: “Here Rousseau had a message for Great Britain which Burke at every stage denied.”

But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.

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

We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.

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