Harold J. Laski: “The history of the nation which becomes a state and insists upon the prerogatives of its statehood is a history…”

From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.

The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.

But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.

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