Harold J. Laski: “Without Bruno and Galileo there would have been neither Rousseau nor Voltaire.”

Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

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

The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.