Harold J. Laski: “They will allow freedom in inessentials; but when the pith of freedom is attack upon their monopoly they will define it…”

We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.

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

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.

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