Harold J. Laski: “I should give to this Parliament a power of delegated legislation which would enable it to frame rules of conduct…”

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.

Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.

Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.