Harold J. Laski: “Now freedom exists in a state where a man knows that the decisions made by the ultimate authority do not invade his…”

The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.

If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.

He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.