Harold J. Laski: “They will persuade themselves that those others are contented with their lot, or made differently in nature, so that…”

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

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

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

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