Harold J. Laski: “Inheriting the possibilities of the cabinet system he gave it its modern expression by creating the office of Prime…”

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

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

He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.

The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.