Harold J. Laski: “The freedom that the poor desire in a society such as this is the freedom to enjoy the things their rulers enjoy.”

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.

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

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

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.