Harold J. Laski: “So long as that is true of our society, we shall continue to deny the validity of all principles which attack the…”

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

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.

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

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