Harold J. Laski: “Natural rights are nothing more than the armour evolved to protect their vital interests.”

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

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

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

How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?