Harold J. Laski: “Whether you study repression in Ireland or Russia, Bavaria or Hungary or India, its history is always the same.”

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 that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.

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

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