Harold J. Laski: “Everyone knows the danger to freedom which exists in any community where there is either special privilege on the one…”

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

Wilkes was a sign that the populace was slowly awaking to a sense of its own power.

I cannot accept the position that government is always entitled to count on industrial peace, whatever its policy.

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.