Harold J. Laski: “So happy a condition does not exist; and government is the most useful way of remedying the defects of our situation.”

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.

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

Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.

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.