Harold J. Laski: “What are the rights of the state when a congress of trade unionists declares a general strike?”

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

Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.

The State has power only for the protection of natural law.

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.