Harold J. Laski: “Men who cease to think cease also in any genuine sense to be citizens.”

If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.

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

How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?

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