The sturdy morality of Johnson, the new literary forms of Richardson and Fielding, the theatre which Garrick founded upon the ruins produced by Collier's indignation, the revival of which Law and Wesley are the great symbols, show that the stagnation was sleep rather than death.
Laski highlights the cultural and literary developments during a time of political stagnation, suggesting a deeper vitality.
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If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.
Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.
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