Harold J. Laski: “What the government will represent as disloyalty to the state will seem to trade unionists a service which is freedom.”

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

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

Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.

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