Harold J. Laski: “Every one of these attitudes is a blunder; especially is it a blunder, for which we pay heavily, in matters of social…”

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.

Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.

I cannot accept the position that government is always entitled to count on industrial peace, whatever its policy.