Harold J. Laski: “What can possibly be gained by an attempt to suppress that philosophy by an imprisonment of its members is quite beyond…”

There is no danger that the general strike will ever be other than a weapon of last resort; the occasions when it can be successfully used will be of the utmost rarity.

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

What is needed is a patriot king who will destroy corruption and awaken the spirit of liberty.

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