Harold J. Laski: “The central problem is with him political, and all other questions are subsidiary to it.”

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

Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.

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

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.