"Who does not know Tocqueville cannot understand liberalism. A case of unanswerable power could, I think, be made out …"

"[L]iberalism has been, in the last four centuries, the outstanding doctrine of Western Civilisation."

"The German-Soviet pact was...a shameless exhibition, on Stalin's part, of complete indifference to the fate of the wo…"

"You have no right whatever to speak on behalf of the Government. Foreign affairs are in the capable hands of Ernest B…"

"I come now to the question of diplomatic personnel... It is said that I am admitting to the service Eton and Harrow. …"

"If Laski was not, in any ordinary sense of the word, a politician, he was also no thinker. He had an unbounded verve …"

"When I first called on Professor Harold Laski, he expressed the opinion that I ought to take some comfort in the vind…"

"He was still in his late twenties and looked like a schoolboy. His lectures on the history of political ideas were br…"

"His lectures taught more, much more than political science. They taught a faith that ideas mattered, that knowledge w…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"