Harold J. Laski: “They are bad because they exclude the general public from access to facts and ideas which are often of vital importance.”

It is an attempt to give each man as similar a chance as possible to utilize what powers he may possess.

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

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

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.