Harold J. Laski: “Some of them are essential to happiness, but that does not make them for a moment less emphatically limitations.”

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

If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.

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

There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.