An able speaker, without being a great orator, a superb administrator, eager rather for power than for good, rating men low by instinct and corrupting them by intelligence, Walpole was not the man, either in type of mind or of temperament, to bring great questions to the foreground of debate.
Laski provides a detailed characterization of Walpole, highlighting his political motivations and limitations.
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If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.
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.
How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?
The State has power only for the protection of natural law.
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