Harold J. Laski: “His picture of the royal prerogative was a portrait against every detail of which what was best in England had struggled…”

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

If no such news is at hand it will be manufactured.

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

Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.