Harold J. Laski: “The people of England would never have discovered the real meaning of 1688 if George III had not denied its principles.”

Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.

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

He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.

Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.