Harold J. Laski: “When we say that, in such a complex of relationships as this, that a man is free, what do we mean?”

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

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

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

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