Harold J. Laski: “But that, in the end, always means that the vital power of the people is absent at the moment when it is most required.”

Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

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

There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.

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