Harold J. Laski: “He thought of nothing save the public welfare.”

I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.

The State has power only for the protection of natural law.

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

But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.