Harold J. Laski: “What was more significant was the realization of Montesquieu's import simultaneously with the effort of George III to…”

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

Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.

Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.

Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.