Harold J. Laski: “The number of those in any society who have a genuine choice, at any given time, of alternative occupations is notably…”

Even Lincoln supported his generals in completely indefensible attacks on civilian rights.

There is no danger that the general strike will ever be other than a weapon of last resort; the occasions when it can be successfully used will be of the utmost rarity.

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

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