Harold J. Laski: “Men cannot, as Rousseau claimed, be forced into freedom.”

There is no danger that the general strike will ever be other than a weapon of last resort; the occasions when it can be successfully used will be of the utmost rarity.

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

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.

If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.